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# he smelled the smell of his clothes and blessed him
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It can be made explicit that the clothes smelled like Esau's clothes. Alternate translation: "he smelled his clothes and they smelled like Esau's clothes, so Isaac blessed him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# he smelled
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"Isaac smelled"
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# the smell
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"the scent"
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# blessed him
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"then he blessed him." This refers to the formal blessing a father pronounces on his children.
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# See, the smell of my son
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The word "see" is used as an emphatic figure of speech to mean "it is true." Alternate translation: "Truly, the smell of my son"
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# that Yahweh has blessed
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Here the word "blessed" means that Yahweh has caused good things to happen to the field and it has become fruitful. Alternate translation: "that Yahweh has caused to be very productive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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