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- Genesis
- Chapter 27
- Verse 2
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Gill's Exposition
And he said, behold, now I am old,.... See Gill on Gen 27:1,
I know not the day of my death; how soon it will be; everyone knows he must die, but the day and hour he knows not, neither young nor…
- Isaac Blessing His Sons The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one years more his son Jacob remains under the…
Adam Clarke
I know not the day of my death - From his present weakness he had reason to suppose that his death could not be at any great distance, and therefore would leave no act undone which he believed it his…
Here is, I. Isaac's design to make his will, and to declare Esau his heir. The promise of the Messiah and the land of Canaan was a great trust, first committed to Abraham, inclusive and typical of…
Cambridge Bible
I know not the day of my death Isaac expects that death is at hand, and fears lest he should die without having pronounced the blessing on his son. The dying utterance was deemed prophetic Gen 48:21,…
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