Genesis 27:19-46 ▼

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.”

34 And Esau heard the words of his father, and he cried out an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and he said to his father, “Bless me also, my father!”

35 And he said, “Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing.”

36 And Esau said, “Is it because his name is called Jacob? And he has supplanted me these two times. He has taken my birthright, and behold, now he has taken my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved for me a blessing?”

37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him master over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants, and grain and new wine I have sustained him with; and for you now, what shall I do, my son?”

38 And Esau said to his father, “Is it one blessing, that you have my father? Bless me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

39 And Isaac his father answered and said to him, “Behold, from the fatness of the earth shall be your dwelling, and from the dew of the heavens above.

40 And by your sword you shall live, and your brother you shall serve. And it shall come to pass when you become restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.”

41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father draw near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

42 And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called for Jacob her younger son, and she said to him, “Behold, Esau your brother is comforting himself concerning you, to kill you.

43 And now, my son, listen to my voice, and arise—flee for yourself to Laban my brother in Haran.

44 And you shall stay with him a few days, until the fury of your brother turns back—

45 until the anger of your brother turns away from you. And he forgets that which you did to him. Then I will send and I will take you from there. Why should I be bereaved also of you? both in one day?”

46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, why to me is life?”