Genesis 27

1It happened that when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son,” and he said to him, “Here I am.”

2And he said, “Look now, I have grown old; I do not know the day of my death.”

3Now then, please take your equipment—your quiver and your bow—and go out to the field and hunt game for me.

4Prepare for me tasty food, just as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.

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

6And Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,”

7Bring me game and make me tasty food, so that I may eat and bless you before Yahweh before I die.’

8Now, my son, listen to my voice as to what I command you.

9Please go to the flock and get for me from there two good young goats, and I will make them into tasty food for your father, just as he loves.

10Then you shall bring it to your father, and he will eat, so that he may bless you before his death.

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

12Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will seem to him like a deceiver, and I will bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.

13His mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son. Only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me.”

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

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

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

17Then she put the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son.

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

19And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please rise, sit, and eat from my game, so that your soul may bless me.”

20Then Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you found it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because Yahweh your God caused it to happen before me.”

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

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

23And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

24He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

25And he said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, so that my soul may 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, please, and kiss me, my son.”

27So he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed.”

28May God give you some of the dew of heaven, and some of the richness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and new wine.

29Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master 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.

30And it happened that as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

31He too prepared tasty food and brought it to his father, and he said to his father, “Let my father rise and eat of his son's game, so that your soul may bless me.”

32His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

33Then Isaac trembled with a very great trembling and said, “Who then was it who hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate from all of it before you came and blessed him? Yes, and he will be blessed.”

34When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

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

36And he said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

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

38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau raised his voice and wept.

39Then his father Isaac answered and said to him, “Behold, your dwelling shall be away from the richness of the earth, and away from the dew of heaven above.”

40And by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose, you shall break his yoke from off your neck.

41And 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 drawing near; then I will kill Jacob my brother.”

42And the words of Esau, her older son, were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself about you by planning to kill you.”

43Now, my son, listen to my voice, and arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.

44And stay with him for a few days, 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 bereaved of both of you in one day?

46Then 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, what is life to me?”