Genesis 27:1-13 ▼

1 And it comes to pass that Isaac [is] aged, and his eyes are too dim for seeing, and he calls [for] his older son Esau and says to him, “My son”; and he says to him, “Here I [am].”

2 And he says, “Now behold, I have become aged, I have not known the day of my death;

3 and now, please take up your instruments, your quiver, and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt provision for me,

4 and make tasteful things for me, [such] as I have loved, and bring [them] to me, and I eat, so that my soul blesses you before I die.”

5 And Rebekah is listening while Isaac is speaking to his son Esau; and Esau goes to the field to hunt game—to bring in;

6 and Rebekah has spoken to her son Jacob, saying, “Behold, I have heard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying,

7 Bring game for me, and make tasteful things for me, and I eat, and bless you before YHWH before my death.

8 And now, my son, listen to my voice, to that which I am commanding you:

9 Now go to the flock, and take for me two good kids of the goats from there, and I make them tasteful things for your father, [such] as he has loved;

10 and you have taken [them] to your father, and he has eaten, so that his soul blesses you before his death.”

11 And Jacob says to his mother Rebekah, “Behold, my brother Esau [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man,

12 it may be my father feels me, and I have been in his eyes as a deceiver, and have brought on me disapproval, and not a blessing”;

13 and his mother says to him, “On me your disapproval, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, take for me.”