Genesis 27:29

New American Bible - revised edition

May peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will find blessing in you.

Genesis 25:33

But Jacob said, “Swear to me first!” So he sold Jacob his right as firstborn under oath.

Genesis 27:30

Jacob had scarcely left his father after Isaac had finished blessing him, when his brother Esau came back from his hunt.

Genesis 27:37

Isaac replied to Esau: “I have already appointed him your master, and I have assigned to him all his kindred as his servants; besides, I have sustained him with grain and wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”

Genesis 27:40

By your sword you will live, and your brother you will serve; But when you become restless, you will throw off his yoke from your neck.”

Genesis 37:10

When he told it to his father and his brothers, his father reproved him and asked, “What is the meaning of this dream of yours? Can it be that I and your mother and your brothers are to come and bow to the ground before you?”

Genesis 37:7

There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheaf and bowed down to it.”

Genesis 9:27

May God expand Japheth, and may he dwell among the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.”

1 Kings 22:47

He removed from the land the rest of the pagan priests who had remained in the reign of Asa his father.

1 Chronicles 5:2

Judah, in fact, became powerful among his brothers, so that the ruler came from him, though the birthright had been Joseph’s.)

Psalm 72:8

May he rule from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 45:14

Thus says the Lord: The earnings of Egypt, the gain of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, tall of stature, Shall come over to you and belong to you; they shall follow you, coming in chains. Before you they shall bow down, saying in prayer: “With you alone is God; and there is none other, no other god!

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your guardians, their princesses your nursemaids; Face to the ground, they shall bow down before you and lick the dust at your feet. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, none who hope in me shall be ashamed.

Isaiah 49:7

Thus says the Lord, the redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, To the one despised, abhorred by the nations, the slave of rulers: When kings see you, they shall stand up, and princes shall bow down Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.

Isaiah 60:12

For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; such nations shall be utterly destroyed!

Isaiah 60:14

The children of your oppressors shall come, bowing before you; All those who despised you, shall bow low at your feet. They shall call you “City of the Lord,” “Zion of the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 9:7

The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it falls upon Israel;

Numbers 23:8

How can I lay a curse on the one whom God has not cursed? How denounce the one whom the Lord has not denounced?

Numbers 24:18

Edom will be dispossessed, and no survivor is left in Seir. Israel will act boldly,

Numbers 24:9

Crouching, they lie like a lion, or like a lioness; who will arouse them? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you!

Matthew 25:40

And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’

Matthew 25:45

He will answer them, ‘Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’

Romans 9:12

not by works but by his call—she was told, “The older shall serve the younger.”

Revelation 19:16

He has a name written on his cloak and on his thigh, “King of kings and Lord of lords.”