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BrLXXΚαὶ εἴπεν αὐτῷ Ἰσαὰκ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, ἔγγισόν μοι, καὶ φίλησόν με, τέκνον. (Kai eipen autōi Isaʼak ho pataʸr autou, engison moi, kai filaʸson me, teknon. )
BrTrAnd Isaac his father said to him, Draw nigh to me, and kiss me, son.
ULTThen Isaac his father said to him, “Please come close and kiss me, my son.”
USTThen Isaac said to Jacob, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”
BSB § Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
OEBThen his father Isaac said to him, ‘Come near now and kiss me, my son.’
WEBBEHis father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
JPSAnd his father Isaac said unto him: 'Come near now, and kiss me, my son.'
ASVAnd his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
DRAHe said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.
YLTAnd Isaac his father saith to him, 'Come nigh, I pray thee, and kiss me, my son;'
DrbyAnd his father Isaac said to him, Come near, now, and kiss me, my son.
RVAnd his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
WbstrAnd his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
KJB-1769And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
KJB-1611And his father Isaac saide vnto him, Come neere now, and kisse me, my sonne. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
BshpsAnd his father Isahac said vnto him: Come neare, and kysse me, my sonne. (And his father Isahac said unto him: Come neare, and kiss me, my son.)
GnvaAfterward his father Izhak sayd vnto him, Come neere nowe, and kisse me, my sonne. (Afterward his father Izhak said unto him, Come near nowe, and kiss me, my son. )
CvdlAnd Isaac his father sayde vnto him: Come nye, and kysse me my sonne. (And Isaac his father said unto him: Come near, and kiss me my son.)
WyclIsaac seide to him, My sone, come thou hidir, and yyue to me a cos. (Isaac said to him, My son, come thou/you hither, and give to me a cos.)
LuthUnd Isaak, sein Vater, sprach zu ihm: Komm her und küsse mich, mein Sohn! (And Isaak, his Vater, spoke to him: Come her and küsse mich, my son!)
ClVgdixit ad eum: Accede ad me, et da mihi osculum, fili mi. (dixit to him: Accede to me, and da to_me osculum, son mi. )
27:1-40 Jacob got his father Isaac’s blessing through deception. In this story, an entire family tries to carry out their responsibilities by physical means rather than by faith. Faith would have provided Rebekah and Jacob a more honorable solution to the crisis.
See how you translated this phrase in verse 21. Alternate translation: “Come near to me”
וּשְׁקָה לִּ֖י בְּנִֽי
and,kiss, to/for=me son,my
It was a Hebrew custom for relatives and close friends to greet each other with a kiss on each cheek. Also consider whether it is more natural in your language to put the address my son first in this quote.
While Isaac’s family was at Beersheba, Jacob stole Esau’s birthright, and Esau made plans to kill Jacob once his father had passed away. When Rebekah found out about Esau’s plan, she told Jacob to flee to her family in Paddan-aram (also called Aram-naharaim, meaning “Aram of the two rivers”) and garnered Isaac’s support by telling him that she was concerned that Jacob might marry one of the local Canaanite woman. So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram to find a wife there, much like Abraham had sent his servant Eleazar to this area to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:10). Jacob left Beersheba and headed for Haran in Paddan-aram, and as night fell he stopped at a town called Luz. There he slept with his head resting on a stone and dreamed of a staircase to heaven with angels ascending and descending it. The Lord also spoke to him and reaffirmed his promise to give Canaan to his descendants. The Lord also promised to bring Jacob back to Canaan from Haran. When Jacob woke from his sleep, he declared the place to be the house of God and renamed it Bethel (meaning, “house of God”). Later Bethel appears to have served as an early location of the Ark of the Covenant in the Promised Land (Judges 20; see “The Ark of the Covenant in the Promised Land” map). From Bethel Jacob continued on to the general area of Haran, likely following the same route in reverse that he followed upon his return journey to Canaan from Haran (Genesis 31-35). Sometime before Jacob returned, however, Esau moved away from Canaan and settled in Seir (Genesis 32:3; 36:1-8; ; see “Edom and the Land of Seir” map).
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
