The Bible In Paintings: ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, JACOB'S BLESSING

[Hebrews 11:6]

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G E N E S I S
CHAPTER 25:27-34

Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!”

Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

“Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”

But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.

SO ESAU DESPISED HIS BIRTHRIGHT.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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JAN VICTORS
"Esau and the Mess of Pottage"

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HENDRICK TER BRUGGHEN
"Esau Selling His Birthright"

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HENDRICK TER BRUGGHEN
"Esau Sells His Birthright"

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MICHEL CORNEILLE the Elder
"Esau and Jacob"

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A.N. MIRONOV
"Esau and Jacob"

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MARIANO SALVADOR MAELLA
"Esaú Vende Su Primogenitura a Jacob"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Esau Sells His Birthright"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Jacob Offers a Dish of Lentels to Esau for the Birthright"

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MATTHIAS STOM
"Esau Sells His Birthright to Jacob"

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MATTHIAS STOM
"Esau and Jacob"

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GERARD HOET
"Esau Sells His Birthright for Pottage of Lentils"

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JAMES TISSOT
"The Mess of Pottage"

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NICOLAS TOURNIER
"Esau Selling his Birthright to Jacob for a Pottage of Lentils"

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EVERHARD RENSIG
"Esau Gives up his Birthright"

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GIUSEPPE BEZZUOLI
"Esau Sells His Birthright to Jacob"

CHAPTER 27

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “Go out to hunt some wild game for me, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son and put them on her younger son Jacob. He went to his father and said, “My father.”

“Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing.”

Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.” So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him.

After Isaac finished blessing him, his brother Esau came in from hunting. He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. “My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”

“I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”

Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”

Esau said, “Jacob has deceived me these two times: HE TOOK MY BIRTHRIGHT, AND NOW HE’S TAKEN MY BLESSING!” Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she said to Jacob, “Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.”

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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MATTHIAS STOM
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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BARTOLOMEO ALTOMONTE
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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JAN SANDERS VAN HEMESSEN
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GERRIT WILLEMSZ HORST
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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ABRAHAM VAN DIJCK
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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NICOLAS-GUY BRENET
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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HAN VAN MEEGEREN
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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JANUARIUS ZICK
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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JOACHIM BEUCKELAER
"Isacco Benedice il Figlio Giacobbe"

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LUCA GIORDANO
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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PROSPERO FONTANA
"Isaak und Jakob"

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JOHANNES PIETER DE FREY
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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GOVERT FLINCK
"Isaac Blesses Jacob"

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GOVERT FLINCK
"Isaac Blessing Jacob"

[telescope115]

Makes sense, I learned something new today!🙂

[Hebrews 11:6]

God loves Kathy Griffin, too.

[delchiante]

Jacob He did love.
And since I can’t see anyone but Kathy Griffin in Prospero’s Jacob...