Genesis 28:1
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28 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.(A)
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Genesis 24:3
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3 and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,(A)
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Genesis 28:3-4
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3 May God Almighty[a] bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples.(A) 4 May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, land that God gave to Abraham.”(B)
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- 28.3 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
Genesis 27:46
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46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”(A)
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Genesis 26:34-35
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Esau’s Hittite Wives
34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite,(A) 35 and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.(B)
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Genesis 24:37
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37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live,
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Genesis 6:2
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2 the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.(A)
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2 Corinthians 6:14-16
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The Temple of the Living God
14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what partnership is there between light and darkness?(A) 15 What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we[a] are the temple of the living God, as God said,
“I will live in them[b] and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.(B)
Joshua 22:7
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7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their fellow Israelites in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their tents and blessed them,(A)
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Deuteronomy 33:1
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Moses’s Final Blessing on Israel
33 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death.(A)
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Exodus 34:15-16
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15 You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice,(A) 16 and you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.(B)
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Genesis 49:28
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28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with a suitable blessing.(A)
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Genesis 48:15
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15 He blessed Joseph and said,
“The God before whom my ancestors Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,(A)
Genesis 34:16
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16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
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Genesis 34:9
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9 Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
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Genesis 27:27-33
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27 So he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said,
“Ah, the smell of my son
is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.(A)
28 May God give you of the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and plenty of grain and wine.(B)
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!”(C)
Esau’s Lost Blessing
30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau came in from his hunting. 31 He also prepared savory food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father sit up and eat of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”(D) 32 His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your firstborn son, Esau.”(E) 33 Then Isaac trembled 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 blessed he shall be!”(F)
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Genesis 27:4
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4 Then prepare for me savory food, such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”(A)
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