TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
Read word by wordthat you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”
Read word by wordSo Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
Read word by wordAnd they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
Read word by wordOn that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
Read word by wordSo he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
Read word by wordWhen Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Read word by wordAnd they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
Read word by wordWhen Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
Read word by word“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
Read word by wordNow Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,
Read word by wordThen take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
Read word by wordJacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
Read word by wordWhat 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.”
Read word by wordHis mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
Read word by wordSo Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
Read word by wordAnd Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
Read word by wordThen she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
Read word by wordSo Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
Read word by wordJacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
Read word by wordBut Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
Read word by wordThen Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
Read word by wordSo Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Read word by wordIsaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
Read word by wordAgain he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
Read word by word“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.
Read word by wordThen his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordAs soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
Read word by wordHe too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
Read word by wordBut his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
Read word by wordIsaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
Read word by wordWhen Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
Read word by wordBut Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
Read word by wordSo Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
Read word by wordBut Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
Read word by wordEsau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Read word by wordHis father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
Read word by wordYou shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
Read word by wordEsau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Read word by wordWhen the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
Read word by wordStay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
Read word by worduntil your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
Read word by wordThen Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
Read word by wordSo Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
Read word by wordMay God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
Read word by wordSo Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Read word by wordNow Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
Read word by wordand that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Read word by wordAnd seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
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