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32 But his father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”

“I’m Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.

33 At this, Isaac began to tremble violently. “Who then,” he asked, “hunted some game and brought it to me to eat before you arrived, so that I’ve blessed him? Indeed, he is blessed.”

34 When Esau realized[a] what his father Isaac was saying, he began to wail out loud bitterly. “Bless me,” he cried, “even me, too, my father!”

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  1. Genesis 27:34 Lit. heard

32 His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”(A)

“I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.(B)

33 Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me?(C) I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!(D)

34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry(E) and said to his father, “Bless(F) me—me too, my father!”

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