Hebrews 12:17 References
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For you know that even afterwards, awhen he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.
a Genesis 27:30-40
Genesis 27
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Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
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Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, "aLet my father arise and eat of his son's game, that byou may bless me."
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Isaac his father said to him, "aWho are you?" And he said, "I am your son, byour firstborn, Esau."
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Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "aWho was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? bYes, and he shall be blessed."
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When Esau heard the words of his father, ahe cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"
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Then he said, "Is he not rightly named aJacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
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But Isaac replied to Esau, "Behold, I have made him ayour master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?"
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Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." So Esau lifted his voice and awept.