Genesis 27:36

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Then Saul said to David, “You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,

The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

“Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Abstain from every form of evil.

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.