Genesis 27 - 28
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When Isaac was old and z his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."
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He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
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a Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,
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and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul b may bless you before I die."
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Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,
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'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.'
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Now therefore, my son, c obey my voice as I command you.
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Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
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And you shall bring it to your father to eat, d so that he may bless you before he dies."
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But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, e my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
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Perhaps my father f will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring g a curse upon myself and not a blessing."
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His mother said to him, h "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me."
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So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.
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Then Rebekah took the i best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
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And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
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Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me."
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But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the Lord your God granted me success."
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Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I j may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."
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So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
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And he did not recognize him, because k his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. l So he blessed him.
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He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."
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Then he said, "Bring it near to me, m that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."
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So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments l and blessed him and said,
"See, n the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
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May God give you of o the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and p plenty of grain and wine.
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Let peoples serve you,
and nations q bow down to you.
r Be lord over your brothers,
and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
s Cursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"
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As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
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He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."
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His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
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Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."
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As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, t he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"
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But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing."
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Esau said, u "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. v He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
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Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, w I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and x with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"
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Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And t Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
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Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:
"Behold, y away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
and away from the dew of heaven on high.
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By your sword you shall live,
and you z shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
a you shall break his yoke from your neck."
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Now Esau b hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, c "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; d then I will kill my brother Jacob."
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But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
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and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away -
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until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?"
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, e "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. f If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
Genesis 28
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Then Isaac called Jacob g and blessed him and directed him, f "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
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h Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of i Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
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j God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
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May he give k the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of l the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!"
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Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
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Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,"
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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So when Esau saw m that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,
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Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, n Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of o Nebaioth.
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Jacob left p Beersheba and went toward q Haran.
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And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
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And he r dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, s the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
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And behold, t the Lord stood above it and said, u "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. v The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Your offspring shall be like w the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and x your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Behold, y I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and z will bring you back to this land. For I will a not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
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Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is b in this place, and I did not know it."
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And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
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So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up c for a pillar d and poured oil on the top of it.
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He called the name of that place e Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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Then Jacob f made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
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g so that I come again to my father's house in peace, h then the Lord shall be my God,
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and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, i shall be God's house. And j of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you."
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Genesis 48:10
Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
1 Samuel 3:2
At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.
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Genesis 25:27 - 28
When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
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Genesis 10:25
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 48:9
Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.
Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day.
Genesis 49:28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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Genesis 27:13
His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.
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Genesis 27:4
And prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.
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Genesis 25:25
The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.
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Genesis 27:21 - 22
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.
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Deuteronomy 27:18
"'Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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1 Samuel 25:24
She fell at his feet and said, "On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.
2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!
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Genesis 27:27
So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
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Genesis 27:12
Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.
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Genesis 27:16
And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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Hebrews 11:20
By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
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Genesis 27:10
And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.
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Genesis 27:23
And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
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Hosea 14:6
His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
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Deuteronomy 33:13
And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath.
Zechariah 8:12
For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Genesis 49:25
By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
2 Samuel 1:21
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
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Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 33:28
So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.
Joel 2:19
The Lord answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
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Genesis 49:8
Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.
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2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Numbers 24:9
He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.
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Hebrews 12:17
For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
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Genesis 25:26
Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
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Genesis 25:33
Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
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Genesis 27:29
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
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Genesis 27:28
May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.
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Genesis 27:34
As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!
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Genesis 27:28
May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.
Genesis 36:6 - 7
Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
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Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.
2 Samuel 8:14
Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
Obadiah 1:18 - 21
The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
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2 Kings 8:20 - 22
In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.
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Genesis 37:4
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
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Genesis 50:3 - 4
Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.
Obadiah 1:10
Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
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Genesis 26:34 - 35
When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father.
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Genesis 24:3
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
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Genesis 28:6
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
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Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
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Genesis 22:23
( Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
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Genesis 12:2 - 3
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 36:7
For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.
Genesis 37:1
Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 24:3
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 26:35
And they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
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Genesis 36:3
And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
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Genesis 25:13
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam.
Genesis 36:3
And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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Acts 7:2
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Numbers 12:6
And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
Job 33:15 - 16
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds.
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John 1:51
And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
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Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
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Genesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
Genesis 13:14 - 16
The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward.
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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
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Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
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1 Kings 8:57
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us.
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Exodus 3:5
Then he said, "Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
Joshua 5:15
And the commander of the Lord 's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'
Genesis 31:45
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
Genesis 35:14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the Lord has helped us.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Leviticus 8:10 - 11
Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Numbers 7:1
On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils.
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Genesis 35:7
And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Judges 1:23
And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. ( Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
Judges 1:26
And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.
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Judges 11:31
Then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord 's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
2 Samuel 15:7 - 9
And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
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Deuteronomy 26:17
You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
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Genesis 35:7
And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:14
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
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Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Leviticus 27:30 - 33
Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord 's; it is holy to the Lord.
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