Quotes about Family
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
- Genesis 27:11
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
- Genesis 27:12
His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
- Genesis 27:13
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
- Genesis 27:16
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
- Genesis 27:17
So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
- Genesis 27:18
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