‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:
This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.
At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: “At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the Lord reward you well for the way you treated me today.