Quotes about Isaac
So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
- Genesis 27:22
Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
- Genesis 27:23
“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.
- Genesis 27:25
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
- Genesis 27:26
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
Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
- Genesis 27:33
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
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
- Genesis 27:46
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
- Genesis 28:1
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
- Genesis 28:5