Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
Genesis 27:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He said, *See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He said, See here now; I am old, I do not know when I may die. American Standard Version (1901) And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. Common English Bible He said, “I’m old and don’t know when I will die. Catholic Public Domain Version His father said to him: "You see that I am old, and I do not know the day of my death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And his father said to him: Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death. |
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
The time drew near that Yisra'el must die, and he called his son Yosef, and said to him, *If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,
Yisra'el said to Yosef, *Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring forth.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in She'ol, where you are going.
In those days was Chizkiyahu sick and near death. Yeshaiyahu the prophet, the son of Amotz, came to him, and said to him, *Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'*
and said, *Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.* Chizkiyahu wept bitterly.
Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
David swore moreover, and said, *Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let Yonatan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.*