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Genesis 27:40

World English Bible

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

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Genesis 27:40 in other translations

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.

Genesis 27:40 · American Standard Version

Genesis 27:40 in context

  1. 38Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
  2. 39Isaac his father answered him,
    “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth,
    and of the dew of the sky from above.
  3. 40You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother.
    It will happen, when you will break loose,
    that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
  4. 41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
  5. 42The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.