36 So he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?[a](A) For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

37 But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”

38 Esau said to his father, “Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:36 = He Grasps the Heel
  2. Genesis 27:38 Lit Esau lifted up his voice and wept

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