Genesis - 27:32



32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

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And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau.
And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy firstborn son Esau.
And Isaac said to him, "But who are you?" And he answered, "I am your firstborn son, Esau."
Et dixit ei Ishac Pater ejus, Quis es? Ille respondit, Ego sum filius tuus, primogenitus tuus Esau.

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And Isaac his father said unto him, who art thou?.... Hearing another voice more like Esau's than what he had heard before surprised him, and therefore in haste puts this question:
and he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau; all which was true in a sense; he was his son, and he was Esau, and he was his firstborn by nature, but not by right, for he had sold his birthright.

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