“And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;”
His father Isaac answered him: your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above. The blessing given to Esau is the inverse of Jacob's: away from the richness, away from the dew. The covenant blessing for the older son is the absence of the covenant provisions given to the younger. The application: the blessing withheld is felt most sharply in contrast to the blessing given — Esau hears the blessing of Jacob in the hearing of his own blessing, and the comparison is devastating.
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