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Verse Genesis 27:12. _I SHALL BRING A CURSE UPON ME_] For even in
those early times the _spirit_ of that law was understood, Deuteronomy
27:18: _Cursed is he that maketh the blind to wander out of th...
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- Isaac Blessing His Sons
The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first
seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one
years more his son Jacob remains under the...
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CHAPTER 27 THE STORY OF JACOB AND THE DECEPTION OF REBEKAH AND JACOB
_ 1. Esau sent (Genesis 27:1)_
2. Rebekah's deception (Genesis 27:5)
3. Jacob's deception (Genesis 27:18)
4. Jacob blessed ...
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AT HIS MOTHER'S INSTIGATION, JACOB CHEATS Esau OF HIS FATHER'S
BLESSING. Probably compiled from J and E. Since both presuppose it
later, both must have told the story. There are doublets which point
t...
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SEEM. He shrinks, not from the fraud, but from its detection....
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_will feel me_ Isaac's sight was no longer good enough to distinguish
between his sons; but the sense of touch would remove all doubt.
_a deceiver_ Better, as R.V. marg., _a mocker_. LXX ὡς
καταφρονῶ...
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PART THIRTY-NINE
THE STORY OF ISAAC: THE TWINS AND THE BLESSING
(Genesis 27:1-45)
_The Biblical Account
1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim,
so that he could not se...
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_AND JACOB SAID TO REBEKAH HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, ESAU MY BROTHER IS A
HAIRY MAN, AND I AM A SMOOTH MAN:_
Jacob said ... Esau ... a hairy man. It is remarkable that his
scruples were founded not on the...
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JACOB BY SUBTILTY OBTAINS THE BLESSING
Urged on by his mother, Jacob attempts by unworthy means to secure the
blessing of the firstborn with all the privileges it involved. But the
wrongdoing of the a...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 27
JACOB CHEATS HIS FATHER
V1 Isaac was very old. His eyes had become so weak that he could not
see. Then he called Esau, who was his older son....
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EXCURSUS G: UPON THE CHRONOLOGY OF JACOB’S LIFE (Genesis 27)
The elaborate calculations of Lightfoot, and most Jewish and Christian
commentators, intended to show that when Jacob set out upon his
jour...
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JACOB'S FRAUD
Genesis 27:1
"The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever."- Psalms 33:11
THERE are some families whose miserable existence is almost entirely
made up of malicious plottings and counter-...
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REBEKAH PLANS TO CHEAT ISAAC
Genesis 27:1
This chapter narrates a sad story of the chosen family. Esau is the
only character which elicits universal sympathy. Isaac appears to have
sunk into prematur...
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From this point the history passes to center largely around Jacob. At
the beginning, four persons stand out: Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and
Jacob, and not one of them is admirable. Isaac is even more degen...
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REBEKAH HELPED JACOB GET THE BLESSING
Rebekah overheard Isaac's instructions to Esau. She called for Jacob
and told him to kill two choice kids from the flocks. She planned to
prepare them in a way w...
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_Mocked him, taking advantage of his blindness and old age.
(Menochius)_...
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Is not this a very apt similitude of Him, who assumed our likeness,
the likeness, as the apostle terms it, of sinful flesh; and was made
sin for us, though he knew no sin, that we might be made the
ri...
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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Jacob's history now begins [1]. Heir of the promises, and valuing
them, he uses means to have them, evil and low in character. God
answers his faith, and chastens his evil and unbelief. God could have...
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MY FATHER PERADVENTURE WILL FEEL ME,.... For, though he could not see
him, and so discern whether he had any hair or no on him, yet,
suspecting him by his voice, he might call him to him to feel him,...
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_My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a
deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing._
Ver. 12. _My father peradventure will feel me._] Our heavenly Fath...
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1 Isaac sendeth Esau for venison.
5 Rebekah instructeth Iacob to obtaine the blessing.
15 Iacob vnder the person of Esau obteineth it.
30 Esau bringeth venison.
33 Isaac trembleth.
34 Esau compla...
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my father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a
deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. This
was partly prudence, partly the voice of conscience which told h...
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Rebekah Arranges to have Jacob Blessed First...
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SIXTH SECTION
_Isaac’s preference for the natural first-born, and Esau. Rebekah
and Jacob steal from him the theocratic blessing. Esau’s blessing.
Esau’s hostility to Jacob. Rebekah’s preparation for...
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JACOB DECEIVES HIS FATHER
In spite of Esau's wrong marriages, and in spite of God's word that
Isaac's older son would serve the younger (ch.25:23). Isaac was ready
to confer his chief blessing on Esa...
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6-17 Rebekah knew that the blessing was intended for Jacob, and
expected he would have it. But she wronged Isaac by putting a cheat on
him; she wronged Jacob by tempting him to wickedness. She put a...
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I shall appear to him to be indeed a deceiver, one that abuseth his
age and blindness. The particle _as_ sometimes signifies not the
likeness, but the truth of the thing, 1 THESSALONIANS 1:14 2
CORINT...
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These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the
principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before
us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
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Genesis 27:12 father H1 feel H4959 (H8799) seem H5869 deceiver H8591
(H8772) bring H935 (H8689) curse...
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THE COURTYARD OF THE TABERNACLE (EXODUS 27:9).
Before and around the sanctuary was a large courtyard into which the
people themselves could come. They could not enter the sanctuary, only
the chosen pr...
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Genesis 27:1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his
eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest
son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, her...
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CONTENTS: Fraudulent methods of Jacob in getting Isaac's blessing.
Remorse of Esau.
CHARACTERS: Isaac, Esau, Jacob, Rebekah.
CONCLUSION: Human nature in prone to scheme to bring about what God
would...
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Genesis 27:1. _Isaac was old;_ in the hundred and thirty-seventh year
of his age, the very year in which his brother Ishmael died. Jacob and
Esau were also in their seventy-seventh year; but Isaac liv...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 27:15. Goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau.] Heb. _The
desirable garments._ The choicest garments belonging to Esau were put
upon Jacob. From Genesis 27:27 it would appear t...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 27:1
AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN ISAAC WAS OLD,—according to the
generally accepted calculation, in his one hundred and thirty-seventh
year. Joseph, having been introduced to Ph...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Genesis chapter twenty-seven?
Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so
that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto...
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feel. Genesis 27:22 Job 12:16 2 Corinthians 6:8 a deceiver. Genesis
27:36...