Genesis 27
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And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, he called
his elder son Esau and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Behold me. 2
And he said, Behold! Now, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. 3 And
now please lift up your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go to the field
and hunt game for me. 4 And make for me delicious things, such as I love, and
bring to me, and I will eat; so that my soul may bless you before I die. 5 And
Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. And Esau went to the field to
hunt game, to bring it in. 6 And Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying,
Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau saying, 7 Bring game
to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before
Jehovah before my death. 8 And now my son hear my voice, that which I command
you. 9 Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats.
And I will make them into delicious things for your father which he loves; 10
and you shall bring it to your father and let him eat, so that he may bless you
before his death. 11 And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Behold, my brother
Esau is a hairy man, and I a smooth man. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and
I shall be like a deceiver in his eyes, and I shall bring a curse on me, and
not blessing. 13 And his mother said to him, Your curse be on me, my son; only
listen to my voice and go, take for me. 14 And he went and took and came to his
mother. And his mother made delicious things, such as his father loved. 15 And
Rebekah took the clothing of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were
with her in the house. And she dressed her younger son Jacob; 16 and she put
the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smoothness of his
neck. 17 And she put the delicious things and the bread which she had made in
the hand of her son Jacob. 18 And he went in to his father and said, My father.
And he said, Behold me. Who are you, my son? 19 And Jacob said to his father, I
am your first-born, Esau. I have done as you said to me. Rise up now, sit and
eat of my game, so that your soul may bless me. 20 And Isaac said to his son,
How then have you quickly found it, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your
God made it come to me. 21 And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near now and let me
feel you, whether then you are my son Esau, or not. 22 And Jacob came near to
his father Isaac. And he felt him, and he said, The voice is the voice of Jacob
and the hands are Esau's hands. 23 And he did not know him, because his hands
were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him. 24 And he
said, Are you then my son Esau? And he said, I am. 25 And he said, Bring to me
and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came
near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine. 26
And his father Isaac said to him, Now come and kiss me, my son. 27 And he came
near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothes. And he blessed
him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which
Jehovah has blessed. 28 And may God give you of the dew of the heavens, and of
the fatness of the earth, and much grain and wine. 29 May the nations serve you
and peoples bow to you; be a ruler to your brothers, and may your mother's sons
bow to you, and cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless
you. 30 And it happened that when Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, then
it came about that Jacob had hardly gone out from the face of his father Isaac,
and his brother Esau came in from his hunting. 31 And he also made delicious
things and came to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise
and eat from the game of his son, so that your soul may bless me. 32 And his
father Isaac said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your
first-born, Esau. 33 And Isaac was terrified with a very great anxiety. And he
said, Who then was the one who hunted game and came to me; and I ate from it
all before you came; and I blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed. 34 When Esau
heard the words of his father he cried out a great and very bitter cry. And he
said to his father, Bless me, me also, my father. 35 And he said, Your brother
came with deceit and took your blessing. 36 And he said, It is because his name
is called Jacob, and this twice he took me by the heel; he took my birthright
and, behold, now he has taken my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a
blessing for me? 37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have set him
over you as a ruler, and I have given him all his brothers for servants; I have
girded him with grain and wine. And what then can I do for you, my son? 38 And
Esau said to his father, Is one blessing left to you, my father? Bless me, me
also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 39 And his father Isaac
answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be from the fat of the
earth and from the dew of the heavens above; 40 and you shall live by your
sword, and you shall serve your brother; and when it shall be that you are
restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck. 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 kill my
brother Jacob. 42 And the words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And
she sent and called her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, Behold! Your
brother Esau is going to ease himself on you, to kill you. 43 And now, my son,
listen to my voice, and rise, flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran.
44 And stay with him some days until your brother's fury turns away, 45 until
your brother's anger turns back from you, and he forgets what you have done to
him. And I will send and take you from there. Why should I also be bereaved of
two of you in one day? 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life from
the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like
these from the daughters of the land, what is my life to me?