Genesis 27

¹When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see , he called Esau his older son and said to him, My son ; and he answered , Here I am .

²He said , Behold , I am old ; I do not know the day of my death .

³Now then, take your weapons , your quiver and your bow , and go out to the field and hunt game for me,

⁴and prepare for me delicious food , such as I love , and bring it to me so that I may eat , that my soul may bless you before I die .

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

⁶Rebekah said to her son Jacob , I heard your father speak to your brother Esau ,

⁷Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food , that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die .

⁸Now therefore, my son , obey my voice as I command you.

⁹Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats , so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father , such as he loves .

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

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

¹²Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing .

¹³His mother said to him, Let your curse be on me, my son ; only obey my voice , and go , bring them to me.

¹⁴So he went and took them and brought them to his mother , and his mother prepared delicious food , such as his father loved .

¹⁵Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son , which were with her in the house , and put them on Jacob her younger son .

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

¹⁷And she put the delicious food and the bread , which she had prepared , into the hand of her son Jacob .

¹⁸So he went in to his father and said , My father . And he said , Here I am . Who are you, my son ?

¹⁹Jacob said to his father , I am Esau your firstborn . I have done as you told me ; now sit up and eat of my game , that your soul may bless me.

²⁰But Isaac said to his son , How is it that you have found it so quickly , my son ? He answered , Because the Lord your God granted me success.

²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob , Please come near , that I may feel you, my son , to know whether you are really my son Esau or not .

²²So Jacob went near to Isaac his father , who felt him and said , The voice is Jacob’s voice , but the hands are the hands of Esau .

²³And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands . So he blessed him.

²⁴He said , Are you really my son Esau ? He answered , I am.

²⁵Then he said , Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you. So he brought it near to him, and he ate ; and he brought him wine , and he drank .

²⁶Then his father Isaac said to him, Come near and kiss me, my son .

²⁷So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said , See , the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed !

²⁸May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine .

²⁹Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers , and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!

³⁰As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob , when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father , Esau his brother came in from his hunting .

³¹He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father . And he said to his father , Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game , that you may bless me.

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

³³Then Isaac trembled very violently and said , Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came , and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed .

³⁴As soon as Esau heard the words of his father , he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father , Bless me, even me also , O my father !

³⁵But he said , Your brother came deceitfully , and he has taken away your blessing .

³⁶Esau said , Is he not rightly named Jacob ? For he has cheated me these two times . He took away my birthright , and behold , now he has taken away my blessing . Then he said , Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

³⁷Isaac answered and said to Esau , Behold , I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants , and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you , my son ?

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

³⁹Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: Behold , away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high .

⁴⁰By your sword you shall live , and you shall serve your brother ; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck .

⁴¹Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself , The days of mourning for my father are approaching ; then I will kill my brother Jacob .

⁴²But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah . So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, Behold , your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

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

⁴⁴and stay with him a while , until your brother’s fury turns away —

⁴⁵until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there . Why should I be bereft of you both in one day ?

⁴⁶Then Rebekah said to Isaac , I loathe my life because of the Hittite women . If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these , one of the women of the land , what good will my life be to me?