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Genesis 27:41

Bible in Basic English 1965

So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

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Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to death.

Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;

When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.

His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:

For thirty days the children of Israel were weeping for Moses in the table-lands of Moab, till the days of weeping and sorrow for Moses were ended.

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.




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