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Genesis 27-28; Matthew 8:18-34 (English Standard Version)

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Genesis 27-28

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Genesis 27

Isaac Blesses Jacob
 1When Isaac was old and(A) 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." 2He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. 3(B) Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me, 4and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul(C) may bless you before I die."

 5Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, 6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, 7'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.' 8Now therefore, my son,(D) obey my voice as I command you. 9Go 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. 10And you shall bring it to your father to eat,(E) so that he may bless you before he dies." 11But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold,(F) my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12Perhaps my father(G) will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring(H) a curse upon myself and not a blessing." 13His mother said to him,(I) "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me."

 14So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved. 15Then Rebekah took the(J) best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

 18So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" 19Jacob 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." 20But 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." 21Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I(K) may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not." 22So 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." 23And he did not recognize him, because(L) his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands.(M) So he blessed him. 24He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am." 25Then he said, "Bring it near to me,(N) 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.

 26Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son." 27So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments(O) and blessed him and said,

   "See,(P) the smell of my son
   is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed!
28May God give you of(Q) the dew of heaven
   and of the fatness of the earth
   and(R) plenty of grain and wine.
29Let peoples serve you,
   and nations(S) bow down to you.
(T) Be lord over your brothers,
   and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
(U) Cursed be everyone who curses you,
   and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"

 30As 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. 31He 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." 32His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." 33Then 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." 34As soon as Esau heard the words of his father,(V) he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!" 35But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing." 36Esau said,(W) "Is he not rightly named Jacob?[a] For he has cheated me these two times.(X) 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?" 37Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold,(Y) I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and(Z) with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?" 38Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And(AA) Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

 39Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:

   "Behold,(AB) away from[b] the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
   and away from[c] the dew of heaven on high.
40By your sword you shall live,
   and you(AC) shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
   (AD) you shall break his yoke from your neck."

 41Now Esau(AE) hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself,(AF) "The days of mourning for my father are approaching;(AG) then I will kill my brother Jacob." 42But 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. 43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran 44and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fury turns away— 45until 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?"

 46Then Rebekah said to Isaac,(AH) "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.[d](AI) 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

Jacob Sent to Laban
 1Then Isaac called Jacob(AJ) and blessed him and directed him,(AK) "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. 2(AL) Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of(AM) Bethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. 3(AN) God Almighty[e] bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4May he give(AO) the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of(AP) the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!" 5Thus 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.
Esau Marries an Ishmaelite
 6Now 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," 7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram. 8So when Esau saw(AQ) that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father, 9Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had,(AR) Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of(AS) Nebaioth.
Jacob’s Dream
 10Jacob left(AT) Beersheba and went toward(AU) Haran. 11And 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. 12And he(AV) dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder[f] set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold,(AW) the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! 13And behold,(AX) the LORD stood above it[g] and said,(AY) "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac.(AZ) The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14Your offspring shall be like(BA) 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(BB) your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15Behold,(BC) I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and(BD) will bring you back to this land. For I will(BE) not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." 16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is(BF) in this place, and I did not know it." 17And 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."

 18So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up(BG) for a pillar(BH) and poured oil on the top of it. 19He called the name of that place(BI) Bethel,[h] but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20Then Jacob(BJ) 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, 21(BK) so that I come again to my father’s house in peace,(BL) then the LORD shall be my God, 22and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar,(BM) shall be God’s house. And(BN) of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you."

Footnotes:
  1. Genesis 27:36 Jacob means He takes by the heel, or He cheats
  2. Genesis 27:39 Or Behold, of
  3. Genesis 27:39 Or and of
  4. Genesis 27:46 Hebrew daughters of Heth
  5. Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El Shaddai
  6. Genesis 28:12 Or a flight of steps
  7. Genesis 28:13 Or beside him
  8. Genesis 28:19 Bethel means the house of God
Cross references:
  1. Genesis 27:1 : Genesis 48:10; 1 Sam 3:2
  2. Genesis 27:3 : Genesis 25:27, 28
  3. Genesis 27:4 : Genesis 10:25; 48:9, 15; 49:28; Deut 33:1
  4. Genesis 27:8 : Genesis 27:13
  5. Genesis 27:10 : Genesis 27:4
  6. Genesis 27:11 : Genesis 25:25
  7. Genesis 27:12 : Genesis 27:21, 22
  8. Genesis 27:12 : Deut 27:18
  9. Genesis 27:13 : 1 Sam 25:24; 2 Sam 14:9; Matt 27:25
  10. Genesis 27:15 : Genesis 27:27
  11. Genesis 27:21 : Genesis 27:12
  12. Genesis 27:23 : Genesis 27:16
  13. Genesis 27:23 : Heb 11:20
  14. Genesis 27:25 : Genesis 27:10
  15. Genesis 27:27 : Genesis 27:23
  16. Genesis 27:27 : Hos 14:6
  17. Genesis 27:28 : Deut 33:13; Zech 8:12; Genesis 49:25; 2 Sam 1:21
  18. Genesis 27:28 : Deut 7:13; 33:28; Joel 2:19
  19. Genesis 27:29 : Genesis 49:8
  20. Genesis 27:29 : 2 Sam 8:14
  21. Genesis 27:29 : Genesis 12:3; Num 24:9
  22. Genesis 27:34 : Heb 12:17
  23. Genesis 27:36 : Genesis 25:26
  24. Genesis 27:36 : Genesis 25:33
  25. Genesis 27:37 : Genesis 27:29; 2 Sam 8:14
  26. Genesis 27:37 : Genesis 27:28
  27. Genesis 27:38 : Genesis 27:34
  28. Genesis 27:39 : Genesis 27:28; Genesis 36:6, 7
  29. Genesis 27:40 : Genesis 25:23; 2 Sam 8:14; Obad 18-21
  30. Genesis 27:40 : 2 Kgs 8:20-22
  31. Genesis 27:41 : Genesis 37:4
  32. Genesis 27:41 : Genesis 50:3, 4, 10
  33. Genesis 27:41 : Amos 1:11; Obad 10
  34. Genesis 27:46 : Genesis 26:34, 35; 28:8
  35. Genesis 27:46 : Genesis 24:3
  36. Genesis 28:1 : Genesis 28:6
  37. Genesis 28:1 : Genesis 27:46
  38. Genesis 28:2 : Hos 12:12
  39. Genesis 28:2 : Genesis 22:23
  40. Genesis 28:3 : Genesis 17:1
  41. Genesis 28:4 : Genesis 12:2, 3
  42. Genesis 28:4 : Genesis 17:8; 36:7; 37:1
  43. Genesis 28:8 : Genesis 24:3; 26:35
  44. Genesis 28:9 : Genesis 36:3
  45. Genesis 28:9 : Genesis 25:13; 36:3
  46. Genesis 28:10 : Genesis 21:31; 26:33
  47. Genesis 28:10 : Acts 7:2
  48. Genesis 28:12 : Num 12:6; Job 33:15, 16
  49. Genesis 28:12 : John 1:51
  50. Genesis 28:13 : Genesis 35:1; 48:3
  51. Genesis 28:13 : Genesis 26:24
  52. Genesis 28:13 : Genesis 35:12; Genesis 13:14-16
  53. Genesis 28:14 : Genesis 13:16
  54. Genesis 28:14 : Genesis 12:3
  55. Genesis 28:15 : Genesis 26:24; 31:3
  56. Genesis 28:15 : Genesis 35:6
  57. Genesis 28:15 : 1 Kgs 8:57
  58. Genesis 28:16 : Exodus 3:5; Josh 5:15
  59. Genesis 28:18 : Genesis 31:13, 45; 35:14; 1 Sam 7:12; 2 Sam 18:18
  60. Genesis 28:18 : Lev 8:10, 11; Num 7:1
  61. Genesis 28:19 : Genesis 35:7; Judg 1:23, 26
  62. Genesis 28:20 : Genesis 31:13
  63. Genesis 28:21 : Judg 11:31; 2 Sam 15:7-9
  64. Genesis 28:21 : Deut 26:17
  65. Genesis 28:22 : Genesis 35:7, 14
  66. Genesis 28:22 : Genesis 14:20; Lev 27:30-33

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Matthew 8:18-34

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The Cost of Following Jesus
 18Now(A) when Jesus saw a crowd around him,(B) he gave orders to go over to the other side. 19(C) And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." 20And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." 21Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." 22And Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave(D) the dead to bury their own dead."
Jesus Calms a Storm
 23(E) And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. 24And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but(F) he was asleep. 25And they went and woke him, saying,(G) "Save us, Lord; we are perishing." 26And he said to them, "Why are you(H) afraid,(I) O you of little faith?" Then he rose and(J) rebuked the winds and the sea, and(K) there was a great calm. 27And the men(L) marveled, saying, "What sort of man is this, that even(M) winds and sea obey him?"
Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons
 28(N) And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes,[a] two(O) demon-possessed[b] men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. 29And behold, they(P) cried out, "What have you to do with us,(Q) O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us(R) before the time?" 30Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. 31And the demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs." 32And he said to them, "Go." So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. 33The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the(S) demon-possessed men. 34And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him,(T) they begged him to leave their region.

Footnotes:
  1. Matthew 8:28 Some manuscripts Gergesenes; some Gerasenes
  2. Matthew 8:28 Greek daimonizomai; also verse 33; elsewhere rendered oppressed by demons
Cross references:
  1. Matthew 8:18 : Matthew 14:22; John 6:15-17
  2. Matthew 8:18 : Mark 4:35; Luke 8:22
  3. Matthew 8:19 : For Matthew 8:19-22, Luke 9:57-60
  4. Matthew 8:22 : John 5:25
  5. Matthew 8:23 : For Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:36-41; Luke 8:22-25; John 6:16-21
  6. Matthew 8:24 : John 4:6, 7
  7. Matthew 8:25 : Matthew 14:30
  8. Matthew 8:26 : John 14:27
  9. Matthew 8:26 : Matthew 6:30
  10. Matthew 8:26 : Psalm 104:6, 7; Luke 4:39
  11. Matthew 8:26 : Job 38:11; Psalm 65:7; Matthew 14:32
  12. Matthew 8:27 : Mark 1:27
  13. Matthew 8:27 : Luke 5:9
  14. Matthew 8:28 : For Matthew 8:28–9:1, Mark 5:1-21; Luke 8:26-40
  15. Matthew 8:28 : Matthew 8:16; Rev 18:2
  16. Matthew 8:29 : Mark 1:23, 24, 26; Luke 4:34; Acts 8:7
  17. Matthew 8:29 : Matthew 4:3, 6; Matthew 14:33
  18. Matthew 8:29 : Rev 12:12
  19. Matthew 8:33 : Matthew 8:16
  20. Matthew 8:34 : 1 Kgs 17:18; Luke 5:8; Acts 16:39

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