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NASB	Genesis 27:35 And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing."
AMPLIFIED 2015	Genesis 27:35 Isaac said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has [fraudulently] taken away your blessing [for himself]."

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Bible Question: Why Esau could not get his blessing back? Why Issac could not reverse what he did?

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Bible Answer: iktoose,

The simple answer: It was God's will for Jacob to have the blessing.

"But this was an extraordinary blessing; and Providence so ordered it that Isaac should bestow it upon Jacob ignorantly and by mistake, that it might appear he was beholden to God for it, and not to Isaac...

Isaac, when first made sensible of the imposition that had been practised on him, trembled exceedingly, Gen_27:33. Those that follow the choice of their own affections, rather than the dictates of the divine will, involve themselves in such perplexities as these. But he soon recovers himself, and ratifies the blessing he had given to Jacob: I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed; he might, upon very plausible grounds, have recalled it, but now, at last, he is sensible that he was in an error when he designed it for Esau. Either himself recollecting the divine oracle, or rather having found himself more than ordinarily filled with the Holy Ghost when he gave the blessing to Jacob, he perceived that God did, as it were, say Amen to it." -- Matthew Henry

The divine oracle referenced:

Genesis 25

22But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is so, why then am I this way?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

23The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb;
And two peoples will be separated from your body;
And one people shall be stronger than the other;
And the older shall serve the younger."

24When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

26Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

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