Jacob Sent to His Uncle Laban

28 Then Isaac called Jacob and (A)blessed him, and [a]charged him, and said to him: (B)“You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

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  1. Genesis 28:1 commanded

28 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed(A) him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.(B)

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and I will make you (A)swear[a] by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that (B)you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;

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  1. Genesis 24:3 take an oath

I want you to swear(A) by the Lord, the God of heaven(B) and the God of earth,(C) that you will not get a wife for my son(D) from the daughters of the Canaanites,(E) among whom I am living,(F)

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“May (A)God Almighty bless you,
And make you (B)fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;
And give you (C)the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
(D)In[a] which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”

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  1. Genesis 28:4 Lit. Of your sojournings

May God Almighty[a](A) bless(B) you and make you fruitful(C) and increase your numbers(D) until you become a community of peoples. May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham,(E) so that you may take possession of the land(F) where you now reside as a foreigner,(G) the land God gave to Abraham.”

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  1. Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai

46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, (A)“I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; (B)if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite(A) women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land,(B) from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”(C)

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34 (A)When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 And (B)they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.

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Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing

34 When Esau was forty years old,(A) he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.(B) 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.(C)

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37 Now my master (A)made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;

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37 And my master made me swear an oath,(A) and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,(B)

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that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they (A)took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

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the sons of God(A) saw that the daughters(B) of humans were beautiful,(C) and they married(D) any of them they chose.

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14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For (B)what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For (C)you[c] are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

(D)“I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:14 in common
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:14 fellowship
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:16 NU we

Warning Against Idolatry

14 Do not be yoked together(A) with unbelievers.(B) For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?(C) 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]?(D) Or what does a believer(E) have in common with an unbeliever?(F) 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?(G) For we are the temple(H) of the living God.(I) As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”[b](J)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:16 Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27

Now to half the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, (A)but to the other half of it Joshua gave a possession among their brethren on this side of the Jordan, westward. And indeed, when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

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(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan,(A) and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side(B) of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,(C)

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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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15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they (A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them (B)invites you and you (C)eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of (D)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters (E)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

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15 “Be careful not to make a treaty(A) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute(B) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.(C) 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives(D) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,(E) they will lead your sons to do the same.

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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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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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