Genesis 27:32-46 ▼

32 Isaac his father said to him, |Who are you?| He said, |I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.|

33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, |Who was it then that hunted an animal and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.|

34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out loudly and bitterly, and said to his father, |Bless me, even me also, my father.|

35 He said, |Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.|

36 He said, |Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has taken what should have been mine these two times. He took away my birthright. Look, now he has taken away my blessing.| He said, |Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?|

37 Isaac answered Esau, |Look, I have made him your lord, and I have made all of his brothers his servants. And I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?|

38 Esau said to his father, |Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.| Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 Isaac his father answered him, |Look, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.|

41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, |The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.|

42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, |Look, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away;

45 until your brother’s anger against you subsides, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and get you from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?|

46 Rebekah said to Isaac, |I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?|