Genesis 27:37-40

New International Version

³⁷Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine.^(A) So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”

³⁸Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.^(B)

³⁹His father Isaac answered him,^(C)

“Your dwelling will be
    away from the earth’s richness,
    away from the dew^(D) of heaven above.^(E)
⁴⁰You will live by the sword
    and you will serve^(F) your brother.^(G)
But when you grow restless,
    you will throw his yoke
    from off your neck.^(H)”

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Numbers 24:17-18

New International Version

¹⁷“I see him, but not now;
    I behold him, but not near.^(A)
A star will come out of Jacob;^(B)
    a scepter will rise out of Israel.^(C)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,^(D)
    the skulls^[a]^(E) of^[b] all the people of Sheth.^[c]
¹⁸Edom^(F) will be conquered;
    Seir,^(G) his enemy, will be conquered,^(H)
    but Israel^(I) will grow strong.

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Footnotes

Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters