Genesis 27:1-13 ▼

1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyesight was failing 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, |Look, I am old now. I do not 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 hunt down a wild animal for me.

4 Make me the tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.|

5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went out to the field to hunt for a wild animal and bring it back to his father.

6 And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, |Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

7 Bring me a wild animal and prepare for me some tasty food, that I may eat it and bless you in my presence 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 from there two choice young goats. I will prepare them in a tasty way for your father, the way he likes it.

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, |Look, 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.|