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Genesis 27:41

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart, ‘The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.’

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When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.


Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry, for anger abides in the heart of fools.


He always plots evil  with perversity in his heart; he stirs up trouble.


‘Are you really going to reign over us? ’ his brothers asked him. ‘Are you really going to rule us? ’ So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.


When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, ‘We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you #– #and he has four hundred men with him.’


For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.


‘ “Because you maintained a perpetual hatred  and gave the Israelites over to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster, the time of final punishment,


because their feet run towards evil and they hurry to shed blood.


So his servants took him out of the war chariot, carried him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. Then he died, and they buried him in the tomb of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned  for Josiah.


The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days.  Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.


He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people,  old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.


Please rescue me from my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.


When the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, ‘Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.


Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.


He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.


They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.


When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said to one another, ‘If Joseph is holding a grudge against us, he will certainly repay us for all the suffering we caused him.’


An offended brother is harder to reach than a fortified city, and quarrels are like the bars of a fortress.





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