Genesis 27:1-24 ▼

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.”

14 And he goes, and takes, and brings to his mother, and his mother makes tasteful things, [such] as his father has loved;

15 and Rebekah takes the desirable garments of Esau her older son, which [are] with her in the house, and puts them on Jacob her younger son;

16 and she has put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck,

17 and she gives the tasteful things, and the bread which she has made, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18 And he comes to his father and says, “My father”; and he says, “Here I [am]; who [are] you, my son?”

19 And Jacob says to his father, “I [am] Esau your firstborn; I have done as you have spoken to me; please rise, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul blesses me.”

20 And Isaac says to his son, “What [is] this you have hurried to find, my son?” And he says, “That which your God YHWH has caused to come before me.”

21 And Isaac says to Jacob, “Please come near, and I feel you, my son, whether you [are] he, my son Esau, or not.”

22 And Jacob comes near to his father Isaac, and he feels him, and says, “The voice [is] the voice of Jacob, and the hands hands of Esau.”

23 And he has not discerned him, for his hands have been hairy, as the hands of his brother Esau, and he blesses him,

24 and says, “You are he—my son Esau?” And he says, “I [am].”