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Genesis 27:34-43 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

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!’

35. But he said, ‘Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.’

36. Esau said, ‘Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: he took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!’ Then he asked, ‘Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?’

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?’

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

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

40. You will live by the swordand you will serve your brother.But when you grow restless,you will throw his yokefrom off your neck.’

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.’

42. When Rebekah was told what her elder son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, ‘Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.

43. Now then, my son, do what I say: flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran.

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