1 When Isaac was old, and his eyes were
dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau
his elder son, and said to him, “My son?”
He said to him, “Here I am.”
2 He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t
know the day of my death.
3 Now therefore, please take your
weapons, your quiver and your bow, and
go out to the field, and get me venison.
4 Make me savory food, such as I love,
and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that
my soul may bless you before I die.”
5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to
Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt
for venison, and to bring it.
6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying,
“Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau
your brother, saying,
7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory
food, that I may eat, and bless you
before the LORD before my death.’
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
according to that which I command you.
9 Go now to the flock and get me two
good young goats from there. I will make
them savory food for your father, such as
he loves.
10 You shall bring it to your father, that
he may eat, so that he may bless you before
his death.”
11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold,
Esau my brother is a hairy man, and
I am a smooth man.
12 What if my father touches me? I will
seem to him as a deceiver, and I would
bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
13 His mother said to him, “Let your
curse be on me, my son. Only obey my
voice, and go get them for me.”
14 He went, and got them, and brought
them to his mother. His mother made
savory food, such as his father loved.
15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau,
her elder son, which were with her in the
house, and put them on Jacob, her younger
son.
16 She put the skins of the young goats on
his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
17 She gave the savory food and the
bread, which she had prepared, into the
hand of her son Jacob.
18 He came to his father, and said, “My
father?”
He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my
son?”
19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau
your firstborn. I have done what you asked
me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my
venison, that your soul may bless me.”
20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you
have found it so quickly, my son?”
He said, “Because the LORD your God
gave me success.”
21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near,
that I may feel you, my son, whether you
are really my son Esau or not.”
22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father.
He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s
voice, but the hands are the hands of
Esau.” 23 He didn’t recognize him, because his
hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s
hands. So he blessed him.
24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?”
He said, “I am.”
25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will
eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may
bless you.”
He brought it near to him, and he ate. He
brought him wine, and he drank.
26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come
near now, and kiss me, my son.”
27 He came near, and kissed him. He
smelled the smell of his clothing, and
blessed him, and said,
“Behold, the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field which the
LORD has blessed.
28 God give you of the dew of the sky,
of the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of grain and new wine.
29 Let peoples serve you,
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers.
Let your mother’s sons bow down to
you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you.
Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing
Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from
the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his
brother came in from his hunting.
31 He also made savory food, and
brought it to his father. He said to his
father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his
son’s venison, that your soul may bless
me.” 32 Isaac his father said to him, “Who are
you?”
He said, “I am your son, your firstborn,
Esau.” 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said,
“Who, then, is he who has taken venison,
and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all
before you came, and have blessed him?
Yes, he will be blessed.”
34 When Esau heard the words of his
father, he cried with an exceedingly great
and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless
me, even me also, my father.”
35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit,
and has taken away your blessing.”
36 He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?
For he has supplanted me these two times.
He took away my birthright. See, now
he has taken away my blessing.” He said,
“Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have
made him your lord, and all his brothers
I have given to him for servants. I have
sustained him with grain and new wine.
What then will I do for you, my son?”
38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have
just one blessing, my father? Bless me,
even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.
39 Isaac his father answered him,
“Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness
of the earth,
and of the dew of the sky from above.
40 You will live by your sword, and you will
serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you will shake his yoke from off your
neck.” 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
with which his father blessed him.
Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning
for my father are at hand. Then I will
kill my brother Jacob.”
42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were
told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob,
her younger son, and said to him, “Behold,
your brother Esau comforts himself about
you by planning to kill you.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice.
Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
44 Stay with him a few days, until your
brother’s fury turns away—
45 until your brother’s anger turns away
from you, and he forgets what you have
done to him. Then I will send, and get you
from there. Why should I be bereaved of
you both in one day?”
46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of
my life because of the daughters of Heth. If
Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth,
such as these, of the daughters of the land,
what good will my life do me?”
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