Genesis 27:40
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You’ll live by your sword, hand-to-mouth,
and you’ll serve your brother.
But when you can’t take it any more
you’ll break loose and run free.
Copyright 2005 Eugene H. Peterson.
In other versions
ESVEnglish Standard Version
By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
you shall break his yoke from your neck.”
Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles
NIVNew International Version (2011)
You will live by the sword
and you will serve your brother.
But when you grow restless,
you will throw his yoke
from off your neck.”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
You will live by your sword,
and you will serve your brother.
But when you rebel,
you will break his yoke from your neck.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
NLTNew Living Translation
You will live by your sword,
and you will serve your brother.
But when you decide to break free,
you will shake his yoke from your neck.”
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
LEBThe Lexham English Bible
But by your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother.
But it shall be that when free yourself
you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
And by thy sword shalt thou live,
And shalt serve thy brother;
And it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
That thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
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