וְהֵבֵאתָ֥ לְאָבִ֖יךָ וְאָכָ֑ל בַּעֲבֻ֛ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְבָרֶכְךָ֖ לִפְנֵ֥י מוֹתֽוֹ
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 27:10
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 27:10 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
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Compare translations 3
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then you take it to your father, and he will eat, so that he will bless you before his death.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then shalt thou bring it to thy father, and he shall eate, to the intent that he may blesse thee before his death.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and thou hast taken in to thy father, and he hath eaten, so that his soul doth bless thee before his death.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and you have taken [them] to your father, and he has eaten, so that his soul blesses you before his death.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You will take it to your father, so that he may eat it, so that he may bless you before his death.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then you take it to your father, and he will eat, so that he will bless you before his death.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, in order that he may bless thee before his death.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then you take it to your father to eat, so he can bless you in the presence of the Lord before he dies.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And you will take it to him, so that he may have a good meal and give you his blessing before his death.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death.'
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בַּעֲבֻ֛ר
ʻâbûwr
H5668
“in/at · because of of”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 49× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 3:17
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
for the sake of, on account of, because of, in order to (preposition)
- in order that (conjunction)
- וְהֵבֵאתָ֥ bôwʼ H935 “and · to enter” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- לְאָבִ֖יךָ ʼâb H1 “to/for · father · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְאָכָ֑ל ʼâkal H398 “and · to eat” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בַּעֲבֻ֛ר ʻâbûwr H5668 “in/at · because of of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- יְבָרֶכְךָ֖ bârak H1288 “to bless · you” Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- לִפְנֵ֥י pânîym H6440 “to/for · face(s) of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
- מוֹתֽוֹ mâveth H4194 “death · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בַּעֲבֻ֛ר because of H5668 occurs in 47 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וְהֵבֵאתָ֥ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
- וְאָכָ֑ל Qal · Sequential Perfect
- יְבָרֶכְךָ֖ Piel · Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εἰςφέρω ὁ πατήρ σύ καί ἐσθίω ὅπως εὐλογέω σύ ὁ πατήρ σύ πρό ὁ ἀποθνήσκω αὐτός
And you shall bring them in to your father, and he shall eat, that your father may bless you before he dies.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתַיְתִי (נ''י וְתָעֵל) לְאָבוּךְ וְיֵכוּל בְּדִיל דִּיְבָרְכִנָּךְ קֳדָם מוֹתֵהּ
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתָעִיל לְאָבוּךְ וְיֵיכוֹל בְּגִין דִי יְבָרְכִינָךְ קֳדָם מוֹתֵיהּ
And thou shalt carry to thy father, and he will eat, that he may bless thee before his death.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻâbûwr (“because of”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “because of” (ʻâbûwr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Genesis 3:17 shares the word «because of» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «וְהֵבֵאתָ֥» is Hiphil Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 27:10 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.