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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Eventually, Isaac grew so old that he could not see. One day, he called his eldest son Esau. "My son," he called out to him. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Look how old I am! I could die any day now, |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3so go find your weapons, take your bow and arrows, go outside, and hunt some game for me. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then prepare some food, just the way I like it, and bring it to me so that I can eat and bless you before I die." |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now Rebekah overheard Isaac while he was speaking to his son Esau. When Esau had gone out to the field to hunt and bring in some game, |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Rebekah gave these instructions to her son Jacob: "Quick! Pay attention!" she said. "I heard your father talking to your brother Esau. He told him, |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Bring me some game and then prepare some food for me so I can eat and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.' |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So now, my son, listen to what I have to say and pay attention to what I'm about to tell you. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Go to the flock and bring me two healthy young goats. I'll prepare some delicious food for your father, just the way he loves it. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then you are to take it to your father so that he can eat and bless you before he dies." |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"But look!" Jacob pointed out to his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man, but I'm smooth skinned. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12My father might touch me and he'll realize that I'm deceiving him. Then, I'll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing." |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"My son," she replied, "let any curse against you fall on me. Just listen to me, then go and get them for me." |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So out he went, got them, and brought them to his mother, who then prepared some delicious food, just the way his father liked it. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then Rebekah took some garments that belonged to her elder son Esau—the best ones available—and put them on her younger son Jacob. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16She put some goat skins over his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then she handed the delicious food and bread that she had prepared to her son Jacob, |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18who went to his father and said, "My father…" "It's me!" he replied. "Which one are you, my son?" |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"I'm Esau, your firstborn!" Jacob told his father. "I've done what you asked, so please sit up and eat what I caught, so you can bless me." |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"How did you get it so quickly, my son?" Isaac asked. Jacob responded, "…because the LORD your God made me successful." |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So Isaac told Jacob, "Come here, my son, so I can feel you and know for sure whether or not you're my son Esau." |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22So Jacob approached his father, who felt him and said, "It's Jacob's voice, but Esau's hands." |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He didn't recognize Jacob, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau, so Isaac blessed him. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" "I am," Jacob replied. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Come closer to me," Isaac replied, "so I can eat some of the game, my son, and then bless you." So Jacob came closer, and Isaac ate. Jacob also brought wine so his father could drink. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26After this, Jacob's father Isaac told him, "Come closer and kiss me, my son." |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So Jacob drew closer to kiss him. When Isaac smelled the scent of his son's clothes, he blessed him and said, "How my son's scent is the fragrance of the field that the LORD has blessed. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28May the LORD grant you dew from the skies, and from the fertile land; may he grant you abundant grain and fresh wine. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29May people serve and bow before you; may you be master over your brothers; may your mother's sons bow before you; may anyone who curses you be cursed; and may anyone who blesses you be blessed." |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Just after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left his father Isaac, Jacob's brother Esau returned from hunting, |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31prepared some delicious food, brought it to his father, and told him, "Can you get up now, father, so you may eat some of your son's game and then bless me?" |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32But his father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I'm Esau, your firstborn son," he answered |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33At this, Isaac began to tremble violently. "Who then," he asked, "hunted some game and brought it to me to eat before you arrived, so that I've blessed him? Indeed, he is blessed." |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34When Esau realized what his father Isaac was saying, he began to wail out loud bitterly. "Bless me," he cried, "even me, too, my father!" |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Isaac replied, "Your brother came here deceitfully and stole your blessing." |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Then he said, "Isn't his name rightly called Jacob?" Esau asked. "He has circumvented me this second time. First, he took away my birthright, and now, look how he also stole my blessing." Then he added, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?" |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37In response, Isaac told Esau, "Look! I've predicted that he's going to become your master, and I've assigned all his brothers to be his servants. What then can I do for you, my son?" |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Then Esau implored his father, "Don't you have even one blessing for me, my father? Bless me, even me too, my father!" Then Esau lifted his voice and wept bitterly. |
39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39At this, his father Isaac replied to him, "Look! Away from the fertile land will be your dwellings; away from the dew of the skies above. |
40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40By your sword you'll live; but you'll serve your brother. But when you've become restless, you'll break off his yoke from your neck." |
41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41So Esau harbored animosity toward Jacob because of the way his father had blessed him. Esau kept saying to himself, "The time to mourn for my father is very near. That's when I'm going to kill my brother Jacob." |
42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42Eventually, what Rebekah's older son Esau had been saying was reported to her, so she sent for her younger son Jacob and warned him, "Look! Your brother is planning to get even by killing you. |
43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Son, you'd better do what I say! Get up, run off to my brother Laban in Haran, |
44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44and stay there with him a few days until your brother's fury subsides. |
45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45After that happens and he has forgotten what you've done to him, I'll send for you so you can return from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?" |
46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46Rebekah also told herself, "Heth's daughters are making me tired of living. If Jacob marries one of Heth's daughters, and she turns out to be just like these other local women, what kind of life would there be left for me?" |
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