Genesis 27:19

New American Bible - revised edition

Jacob answered his father: “I am Esau, your firstborn. I did as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

Cross References

Genesis 25:25

The first to emerge was reddish, and his whole body was like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau.

Genesis 25:28

Isaac preferred Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah preferred Jacob.

Genesis 27:18

Going to his father, Jacob said, “Father!” “Yes?” replied Isaac. “Which of my sons are you?”

Genesis 27:21

Isaac then said to Jacob, “Come closer, my son, that I may feel you, to learn whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

Genesis 27:31

Then he too prepared a dish, and bringing it to his father, he said, “Let my father sit up and eat some of his son’s game, that you may then give me your blessing.”

Genesis 27:35

When Isaac said, “Your brother came here by a ruse and carried off your blessing,”

Genesis 27:4

Then prepare for me a dish in the way I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

Genesis 27:45

until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back. Why should I lose both of you in a single day?” Jacob Sent to Laban.

1 Kings 13:18

But he said to him, “I, too, am a prophet like you, and an angel told me by the word of the Lord: Bring him back with you to your house to eat bread and drink water.” But he was lying to him.

1 Kings 14:2

So Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go and disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you as Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh, where you will find Ahijah the prophet. It was he who spoke the word that made me king over this people.

Isaiah 28:15

You have declared, “We have made a covenant with death, with Sheol we have made a pact; When the raging flood passes through, it will not reach us; For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a hiding place,”—