39Isaac his father answered him, |Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.


In Context

36 He said, |Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.| He said, |Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?|

37 Isaac answered Esau, |Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?|

38 Esau said to his father, |Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.| Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 Isaac his father answered him, |Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.|

41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, |The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.|

Genesis 27:39 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:39And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:39His father Isaac answered him, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:39Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:39And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from above.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:39And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:39And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from above;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:39And Isaac his father answered, and said to him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:39And Isaac his father answereth and saith unto him, 'Lo, of the fatness of the earth is thy dwelling, and of the dew of the heavens from above;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:39And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;