When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”
And he answered, “Here I am.”
“So now take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.
“Then make me a delicious meal that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die.”
Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,
“‘Bring me game and make a delicious meal for me to eat so that I can bless you in the LORD’s presence before I die.’
“Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father — the kind he loves.
Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.
“Suppose my father touches me. Then I will be revealed to him as a deceiver and bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself.”
His mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey me and go get them for me.”
So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.
Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them.
She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.
When he came to his father, he said, “My father.”
And he answered, “Here I am. Who are you, my son? ”
Jacob replied 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 bless me.”
But Isaac said to his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son? ”
He replied, “Because the LORD your God made it happen for me.”
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not? ”
So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
Then he said, “Bring it closer to me, and let me eat some of my son’s game so that I can bless you.” Jacob brought it closer to him, and he ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.
May God give to you —
from the dew of the sky
and from the richness of the land —
an abundance of grain and new wine.
May peoples serve you
and nations bow in homage to you.
Be master over your relatives;
may your mother’s sons bow in homage to you.
Those who curse you will be cursed,
and those who bless you will be blessed.
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.
He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you? ”
He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”
Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed! ”
When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father! ”
But Isaac answered Esau, “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son? ”
His father Isaac answered him,
Look, your dwelling place will be
away from the richness of the land,
away from the dew of the sky above.
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.
“until your brother’s rage turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you both in one day? ”
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