Quotes about Family
Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
— Genesis 27:23
Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
— Genesis 27:24
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
— Genesis 27:26
So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
— Genesis 27:27
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
— Genesis 27:30
But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
— Genesis 27:32
When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
— Genesis 27:34
But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
— Genesis 27:35
But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
— Genesis 27:37
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
— Genesis 27:38
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
— Genesis 27:41
When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
— Genesis 27:42