27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.
27:2 Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.
27:3 Now then, get your weapons–your quiver and bow–and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
27:4 Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
27:5 Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
27:7 ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.’
27:8 Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:
27:9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.
27:10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
27:11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I’m a man with smooth skin.
27:12 What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”
27:13 His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
27:14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
27:15 Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
27:16 She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
27:17 Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
27:18 He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing.”
27:20 Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The LORD your God gave me success,” he replied.
27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
27:22 Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
27:23 He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
27:24 “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.
27:25 Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.
27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”
27:27 So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
27:28 May God give you of heaven’s dew and of earth’s richness–an abundance of grain and new wine.
27:29 May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
27:30 After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
27:31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
27:32 His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
27:33 Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him–and indeed he will be blessed!”
27:34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me–me too, my father!”
27:35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
27:36 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
27:37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
27:38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
27:39 His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.
27:40 You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”
27:41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
27:42 When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.
27:43 Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
27:44 Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides.
27:45 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
27:1 Now when Isaac was old, and his eyes had become so dim that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Here I am.
27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, and I do not know the day of my death.
27:3 Now then, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me,
27:4 And prepare for me a tasty meal, such as I love, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.
27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring it home,
27:6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, I just heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,
27:7 Bring me game, and prepare for me a tasty meal so that I may eat it and bless you before Jehovah before my death.
27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
27:9 Go now to the flock, and take two choice kids for me from there, and I will prepare them as a tasty meal for your father, such as he loves.
27:10 Then you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death.
27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
27:12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.
27:13 And his mother said to him, Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.
27:14 And he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared a tasty meal, such as his father loved.
27:15 And Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
27:16 And she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
27:17 And she put the tasty meal and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of Jacob her son.
27:18 And he came to his father and said, My father. And he said, Here I am. Who are you, my son?
27:19 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Now rise up; sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.
27:20 And Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God put it in my way.
27:21 And 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.
27:22 And Jacob came near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, The voice is Jacob s voice, but the hands are Esau s hands.
27:23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau s hands; so he blessed him.
27:24 And he said, Are you really my son Esau? And he said, I am.
27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son s game, that I may bless you. So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, Please come near and kiss me, my son.
27:27 So he came near and kissed him; and when Isaac smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son ? / Like the smell of a field / Which Jehovah has blessed.
27:28 And may God give you / Of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, / And an abundance of grain and new wine.
27:29 Let peoples serve you, / And nations bow down to you. / Be lord over your brothers, / And let your mother s sons bow down to you. / Cursed be those who curse you, / And blessed be those who bless you.
27:30 And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
27:31 And he also had prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise up, and eat some of his son s game, that you may bless me.
27:32 And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.
27:33 And Isaac trembled very greatly and said, Who was it then who hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of it all before you came and blessed him? And blessed will he be.
27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a very great and bitter cry and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
27:35 And he said, Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.
27:36 And Esau said, Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted 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?
27:37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, I have already made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. And what then shall I do for you, my son?
27:38 And Esau said to his father, Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, / And of the dew of heaven from above.
27:40 Yet by your sword shall you live, / And you shall serve your brother. / And when you become restless, / You shall break his yoke from off your neck.
27:41 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 are near; then I will slay my brother Jacob.
27:42 And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, so she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, Now your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.
27:43 Therefore, my son, obey my voice now, and rise up; flee to Laban my brother at Haran,
27:44 And stay with him a few days, until your brother s fury turns away,
27:45 Until your brother s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send word and bring you back from there. Why should I be bereaved of both of you in one day?
27:46 And 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 like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?