Genesis 27:1-33 ▼

1 And it came to pass when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son,” and he answered him, “Behold, it is I.”

2 And he said, “Behold, please, I have grown old; I do not know the day of my death.

3 And now take, please, your weapons—your quiver and your bow—and go out to the field, and hunt for me game.

4 And make for me savory foods, as I have loved, and bring them to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”

5 And Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it.

6 And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I have heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

7 ‘Bring me game and make for me savory foods, and I will eat and bless you before YHWH before my death.’

8 And now, my son, listen to my voice, according to what I am commanding you.

9 Go now to the flock and take for me from there two good kids of the goats, and I will make them savory foods for your father, as he loves.

10 And you shall bring it to your father that he may eat it, so that he may bless you before his death.”

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

12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be in his eyes as a deceiver, and I shall bring on myself a curse and not a blessing.”

13 And his mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only listen to my voice and go get them for me.”

14 And he went and he got them and he brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory foods, as his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took the finest clothes of Esau her elder son that were with her in the house, and she clothed Jacob her younger son.

16 And the skins of the kids of the goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

17 And she gave the savory foods and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son.

18 And he went to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Behold, it is I. Who are you, my son?”

19 And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told to me. Arise, please, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”

20 And Isaac said to his son, “What is this—you have so quickly found it, my son?” And he said, “Because YHWH your God caused it to happen before me.”

21 And Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, please, and I will feel you, my son—are you he, my son Esau, or not?”

22 And Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, and the hands are the hands of Esau.”

23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him,

24 and he said, “Are you he, my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

25 And He said, “Bring it near to me and I will eat of the game, my son, so that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought to him wine, and he drank.

26 And Isaac his father said to him, “Come near, please, and kiss me, my son.”

27 And he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and he blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that YHWH has blessed.

28 And may God give to you from the dew of the heavens, and from the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine.

29 May peoples serve you and may nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

30 And it came to pass, as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, then it came to pass—Jacob had only just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father—that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

31 And he also made savory foods and he brought them to his father, and he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of the game of his son, that your soul may bless me.”

32 And Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

33 And Isaac trembled with an exceedingly great trembling, and said, “Who then is the one who hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of it all before you came, and I have blessed him? And indeed, he shall be blessed.”