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Genesis 27:31-33
New English Translation
Genesis 27:31-33
New English Translation
31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau[a] said to him, “My father, get up[b] and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.”[c] 32 His father Isaac asked,[d] “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,”[e] he replied, “Esau!” 33 Isaac began to shake violently[f] and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.[g] He will indeed be blessed!”
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- Genesis 27:31 tn Heb “and he said to his father”; the referent of “he” (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity, while the words “his father” have been replaced by the pronoun “him” for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 27:31 tn Or “arise” (i.e., sit up).
- Genesis 27:31 tn Heb “so that your soul may bless me.”
- Genesis 27:32 tn Heb “said.”
- Genesis 27:32 tn Heb “and he said, ‘I [am] your son, your firstborn.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 27:33 tn Heb “and Isaac trembled with a great trembling to excess.” The verb “trembled” is joined with a cognate accusative, which is modified by an adjective “great,” and a prepositional phrase “to excess.” All of this is emphatic, showing the violence of Isaac’s reaction to the news.
- Genesis 27:33 tn Heb “Who then is he who hunted game and brought [it] to me so that I ate from all before you arrived and blessed him?”
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