Genesis 27:41

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

“ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them;”

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

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

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

“ ‘ “Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.