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You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

Genesis 27:40 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીઉત્પત્તિ ૨૭:૪૦
તું તારી તલવારથી જીવશે. તારે તારા ભાઈની સેવા કરવી પડશે. પણ જયારે તું તેની સામે થશે, ત્યારે તું તારી ગરદન પરથી તેની ઝૂંસરી ફગાવી દઈ શકશે.”
हिन्दीउत्पत्ति २७:४०
तू अपनी तलवार के बल से जीवित रहे, और अपने भाई के अधीन तो होए; पर जब तू स्वाधीन हो जाएगा, तब उसके जूए को अपने कंधे पर से तोड़ फेंके।” (इब्रा. 11:20)

In context

38Esau 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.

39Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above.

40You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

42The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

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