Genesis 27

Then it happened, when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, then he called Esau, his older son, and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Behold me.”

Then he said, “Behold, please, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. \*

So now, please take your weapons, your quiver, and your bow, and go out {in} the field and hunt game for me.

Then prepare tasty food for me such as I love, and bring it to me so I can eat it, so that my soul can bless you before I die.” \*

And Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Then Esau went {to} the field to hunt game to bring it back.

Then Rebekah said to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

‘Bring game for me and prepare tasty food for me so that I can eat it and I can bless you in the presence of God, before my death.’ \*

So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you.

Please go to the flock and bring to me from there two good kids of the goats so that I will prepare from them tasty food for your father such as he loves.

Then you take it to your father, and he will eat {it}, so that he will bless you before his death.” \*

Then Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother {is} a hairy man, but I {am} a smooth man.

Suppose my father touches me? Then I will be in his eyes as a deceiver, and I will bring a curse on me and not a blessing.” \*

But his mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Just listen to my voice, and go get {them} for me.”

So he went and got {them} and brought {them} to his mother. Then his mother prepared tasty food such as his father loved. \*

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son that {were} with her in the house and put them on Jacob her younger son.

And she put the skins of the kid goats over his hands and over the smooth part of his neck.

Then she gave the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand{s} of Jacob her son, \*

and he went to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Behold me. Who {are} you, my son?”

Then Jacob said to his father, “I {am} Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit and eat some of my game, so that your soul will bless me.” \*

Then Isaac said to his son, “How {is} this you were quick to find {it}, my son?” And he said, “Because God your God caused {it} to happen before me.”

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come close, so that I can touch you, my son, {and know} whether you are really my son Esau or not.” \*

So Jacob went close to Isaac his father, and he touched him and said, “The voice {is} the voice of Jacob, but the hands {are} the hands of Esau.”

So he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother, and he was about to bless him. \*

But he said, “{Are} you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I {am}.”

Then he said, “Bring {the food} to me, and I will eat some of my son’s game, so that my soul will bless you.” Then he brought {it} to him, and he ate; and he brought wine to him, and he drank. \*

Then Isaac his father said to him, “Please come close and kiss me, my son.”

So he went close and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothes, so he blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son {is} like the smell of a field that God has blessed! \* 28 And may God give to you from the dew of the heavens and from the fatness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and 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. {May} those {who} curse you be cursed, and {may} those {who} bless you be blessed.” \*

Then it happened, just as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and it happened, scarcely had Jacob just left from the presence of Isaac his father, then Esau his brother came in from his hunt.

Then he too prepared tasty food, and he brought {it} to his father and said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat from his son’s game so that your soul can bless me.” \*

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

Then Isaac trembled a very great tremble, and he said, “Then who {was} it that hunted game and brought {it} to me? And I ate from {it} all just before you came, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed.” \*

When Esau heard the words of his father, then he cried out a great and exceedingly bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me too, my father!”

And he said, “Your brother came in deceit and took your blessing.” \*

Then he said, “Is it because his name is called Jacob that he has defrauded me these two times? He took my birthright, and behold, now he has taken my blessing!” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

But Isaac responded and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him master over you, and I have given all his brothers to him as servants. And I have sustained him with grain and wine. So then, what can I do for you, my son?” \*

But Esau said to his father, “Is there one blessing that you have, my father? Bless me, me too, my father!” Then Esau lifted his voice and sobbed. \*

Then Isaac his father responded and said to him, “Behold, your dwelling will be away from the fatness of the earth and away from the dew of the heavens from above. 40 And you will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. But it will happen when you become restless, then you will break his yoke off of your neck.” \*

Then Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had blessed him with, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of the mourning of my father are near; then I will kill Jacob my brother.”

But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, so she sent and called for Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, Esau your brother is consoling himself about you, planning to kill you. \*

So now, my son, listen to my voice and get up, flee for yourself to Laban my brother in Haran!

And stay with him for a few days until the fury of your brother turns away,

until the anger of your brother turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I also lose both of you {in} one day?” \*

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth! If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these, from daughters of the land, what {would} life {be} to me?” \*