19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done just as you told me; please arise, sit and eat of my game, (A)that your soul may bless me.”

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19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn.(A) I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game,(B) so that you may give me your blessing.”(C)

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25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, so (A)that my soul may bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

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25 Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”(A)

Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.

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27 And he came near and (A)kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said:

“Surely, (B)the smell of my son
Is like the smell of a field
Which the Lord has blessed.

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27 So he went to him and kissed(A) him(B). When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes,(C) he blessed him and said,

“Ah, the smell of my son
    is like the smell of a field
    that the Lord has blessed.(D)

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31 He also had made [a]savory food, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise and (A)eat of his son’s game, that your soul may bless me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:31 tasty

31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”(A)

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Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place.

And he said, “Please bring them to me, and (A)I will bless them.”

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“They are the sons God has given me here,”(A) Joseph said to his father.

Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless(B) them.”

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15 And (A)he blessed Joseph, and said:

“God, (B)before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
The God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

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15 Then he blessed(A) Joseph and said,

“May the God before whom my fathers
    Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully,(B)
the God who has been my shepherd(C)
    all my life to this day,

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16 The Angel (A)who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
Let (B)my name be named upon them,
And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And let them (C)grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

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16 the Angel(A) who has delivered me from all harm(B)
    —may he bless(C) these boys.(D)
May they be called by my name
    and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,(E)
and may they increase greatly
    on the earth.”(F)

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28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them; he blessed each one according to his own blessing.

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28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,(A) and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing(B) appropriate to him.

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Moses’ Final Blessing on Israel

33 Now this is (A)the blessing with which Moses (B)the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

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Moses Blesses the Tribes(A)

33 This is the blessing(B) that Moses the man of God(C) pronounced on the Israelites before his death.

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20 By faith (A)Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

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20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.(A)

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