Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Genesis 27:11
And Jacob said, &c. Jacob objects to the proposal, not because of its deceitfulness, but because of the risk of detection.
a hairy man See Genesis 25:25 (E).
And Jacob said, &c. Jacob objects to the proposal, not because of its deceitfulness, but because of the risk of detection.
a hairy man See Genesis 25:25 (E).
- Isaac Blessing His Sons The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one years more his son Jacob remains under the...
CHAPTER 27 THE STORY OF JACOB AND THE DECEPTION OF REBEKAH AND JACOB _ 1. Esau sent (Genesis 27:1)_ 2. Rebekah's deception (Genesis 27:5) 3. Jacob's deception (Genesis 27:18) 4. Jacob blessed ...
AT HIS MOTHER'S INSTIGATION, JACOB CHEATS Esau OF HIS FATHER'S BLESSING. Probably compiled from J and E. Since both presuppose it later, both must have told the story. There are doublets which point t...
PART THIRTY-NINE THE STORY OF ISAAC: THE TWINS AND THE BLESSING (Genesis 27:1-45) _The Biblical Account 1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not se...
_AND JACOB SAID TO REBEKAH HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, ESAU MY BROTHER IS A HAIRY MAN, AND I AM A SMOOTH MAN:_ Jacob said ... Esau ... a hairy man. It is remarkable that his scruples were founded not on the...
JACOB BY SUBTILTY OBTAINS THE BLESSING Urged on by his mother, Jacob attempts by unworthy means to secure the blessing of the firstborn with all the privileges it involved. But the wrongdoing of the a...
HAIRY MAN] see Genesis 25:25....
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 27 JACOB CHEATS HIS FATHER V1 Isaac was very old. His eyes had become so weak that he could not see. Then he called Esau, who was his older son....
EXCURSUS G: UPON THE CHRONOLOGY OF JACOB’S LIFE (Genesis 27) The elaborate calculations of Lightfoot, and most Jewish and Christian commentators, intended to show that when Jacob set out upon his jour...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יַעֲקֹ֔ב אֶל ־רִבְקָ֖ה אִמֹּ֑ו הֵ
JACOB'S FRAUD Genesis 27:1 "The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever."- Psalms 33:11 THERE are some families whose miserable existence is almost entirely made up of malicious plottings and counter-...
REBEKAH PLANS TO CHEAT ISAAC Genesis 27:1 This chapter narrates a sad story of the chosen family. Esau is the only character which elicits universal sympathy. Isaac appears to have sunk into prematur...
From this point the history passes to center largely around Jacob. At the beginning, four persons stand out: Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob, and not one of them is admirable. Isaac is even more degen...
REBEKAH HELPED JACOB GET THE BLESSING Rebekah overheard Isaac's instructions to Esau. She called for Jacob and told him to kill two choice kids from the flocks. She planned to prepare them in a way w...
Is not this a very apt similitude of Him, who assumed our likeness, the likeness, as the apostle terms it, of sinful flesh; and was made sin for us, though he knew no sin, that we might be made the ri...
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
11._And Jacob said to Rebekah_. That Jacob does not voluntarily present himself to his father, but rather fears lest, his imposture being detected, he should bring a curse upon himself, is very contra...
Jacob's history now begins [1]. Heir of the promises, and valuing them, he uses means to have them, evil and low in character. God answers his faith, and chastens his evil and unbelief. God could have...
AND JACOB SAID TO REBEKAH HIS MOTHER,.... Being timorous lest he should do an ill thing, and be accounted a deceiver, and bring a curse upon himself: BEHOLD, ESAU MY BROTHER [IS] A HAIRY MAN; covered...
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man: Ver. 11. _Esau my brother is a hairy man._] This Rebekah thought not of. _Plus vident oculi, q...
1 Isaac sendeth Esau for venison. 5 Rebekah instructeth Iacob to obtaine the blessing. 15 Iacob vnder the person of Esau obteineth it. 30 Esau bringeth venison. 33 Isaac trembleth. 34 Esau compla...
And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, Behold, Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man;...
Rebekah Arranges to have Jacob Blessed First...
SIXTH SECTION _Isaac’s preference for the natural first-born, and Esau. Rebekah and Jacob steal from him the theocratic blessing. Esau’s blessing. Esau’s hostility to Jacob. Rebekah’s preparation for...
JACOB DECEIVES HIS FATHER In spite of Esau's wrong marriages, and in spite of God's word that Isaac's older son would serve the younger (ch.25:23). Isaac was ready to confer his chief blessing on Esa...
6-17 Rebekah knew that the blessing was intended for Jacob, and expected he would have it. But she wronged Isaac by putting a cheat on him; she wronged Jacob by tempting him to wickedness. She put a...
No text from Poole on this verse....
These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
Genesis 27:11 Jacob H3290 said H559 (H8799) Rebekah H7259 mother H517 Esau H6215 brother H251 hairy H8163 man...
‘And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look. Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man. Perhaps my father will feel me and I will seem to him as a deceiver. And I will bring a curse on me and not a b...
THE COURTYARD OF THE TABERNACLE (EXODUS 27:9). Before and around the sanctuary was a large courtyard into which the people themselves could come. They could not enter the sanctuary, only the chosen pr...
Genesis 27:1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, her...
CONTENTS: Fraudulent methods of Jacob in getting Isaac's blessing. Remorse of Esau. CHARACTERS: Isaac, Esau, Jacob, Rebekah. CONCLUSION: Human nature in prone to scheme to bring about what God would...
Genesis 27:1. _Isaac was old;_ in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of his age, the very year in which his brother Ishmael died. Jacob and Esau were also in their seventy-seventh year; but Isaac liv...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:11 From birth, Esau was clearly distinguished from Jacob by his HAIRY appearance (see Genesis 25:25)....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 27:15. Goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau.] Heb. _The desirable garments._ The choicest garments belonging to Esau were put upon Jacob. From Genesis 27:27 it would appear t...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 27:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN ISAAC WAS OLD,—according to the generally accepted calculation, in his one hundred and thirty-seventh year. Joseph, having been introduced to Ph...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Genesis chapter twenty-seven? Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto...
hairy man. Genesis 25:25...