Genesis 27

Question 1

Genesis 27:1

Answer 1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.

Question 2

Genesis 27:2

Answer 2

Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.

Question 3

Genesis 27:3

Answer 3

Now then, get your weapons - your quiver and bow - and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.

Question 4

Genesis 27:4

Answer 4

Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”

Question 5

Genesis 27:5

Answer 5

Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,

Question 6

Genesis 27:6

Answer 6

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,

Question 7

Genesis 27:7

Answer 7

Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.’

Question 8

Genesis 27:8

Answer 8

Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:

Question 9

Genesis 27:9

Answer 9

Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

Question 10

Genesis 27:10

Answer 10

Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”

Question 11

Genesis 27:11

Answer 11

Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I’m a man with smooth skin.

Question 12

Genesis 27:12

Answer 12

What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”

Question 13

Genesis 27:13

Answer 13

His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”

Question 14

Genesis 27:14

Answer 14

So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.

Question 15

Genesis 27:15

Answer 15

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

Question 16

Genesis 27:16

Answer 16

She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.

Question 17

Genesis 27:17

Answer 17

Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

Question 18

Genesis 27:18

Answer 18

He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”

Question 19

Genesis 27:19

Answer 19

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing.”

Question 20

Genesis 27:20

Answer 20

Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The LORD your God gave me success,” he replied.

Question 21

Genesis 27:21

Answer 21

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

Question 22

Genesis 27:22

Answer 22

Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Question 23

Genesis 27:23

Answer 23

He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

Question 24

Genesis 27:24

Answer 24

“Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.

Question 25

Genesis 27:25

Answer 25

Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.

Question 26

Genesis 27:26

Answer 26

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”

Question 27

Genesis 27:27

Answer 27

So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

Question 28

Genesis 27:28

Answer 28

May God give you of heaven’s dew and of earth’s richness - an abundance of grain and new wine.

Question 29

Genesis 27:29

Answer 29

May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”

Question 30

Genesis 27:30

Answer 30

After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.

Question 31

Genesis 27:31

Answer 31

He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

Question 32

Genesis 27:32

Answer 32

His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”

Question 33

Genesis 27:33

Answer 33

Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him - and indeed he will be blessed!”

Question 34

Genesis 27:34

Answer 34

When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me - me too, my father!”

Question 35

Genesis 27:35

Answer 35

But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

Question 36

Genesis 27:36

Answer 36

Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob ? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”

Question 37

Genesis 27:37

Answer 37

Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”

Question 38

Genesis 27:38

Answer 38

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

Question 39

Genesis 27:39

Answer 39

His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

Question 40

Genesis 27:40

Answer 40

You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

Question 41

Genesis 27:41

Answer 41

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Question 42

Genesis 27:42

Answer 42

When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.

Question 43

Genesis 27:43

Answer 43

Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

Question 44

Genesis 27:44

Answer 44

Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides.

Question 45

Genesis 27:45

Answer 45

When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

Question 46

Genesis 27:46

Answer 46

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