40By 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.|


In Context

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.|

42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, |Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

Genesis 27:40 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:40You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:40Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword and shalt serve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live; And thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou rovest about, That thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother: and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:40and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:40And by your sword shall you live, and shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass when you shall have the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.