Genesis 27

1 Now it was, when Isaac was old and had lost his eyesight, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!”

And he said to him, “Here I am.”

2 And he said, “Look please. I am old and I don’t know the day of my death. 3 So now please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the countryside, and hunt wild game for me. 4 And prepare a tasty dish for me, like I love, and bring it to me and I will eat it, so that I myself may bless you before I die.”

5 Now Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the countryside to hunt for wild game, and to bring it. 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7 ‘Bring me wild game, and make a tasty dish for me. I will eat it and bless you in front of Yehovah before my death.’ 8 And now my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you. 9 Please go to the flock and get two good young goats for me from there. I will make them into a tasty dish for your father, like he loves. 10 And you will bring it to your father and he will eat it, so that he may bless you before his death.”

11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look—Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 Maybe my father would touch me, and I would be like a pretender in his eyes, and I would bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”

13 And his mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Just listen to my voice and go get them for me.”

14 And he went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. And his mother made a tasty dish, like his father loved. 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. 16 And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 And she put the tasty dish and the bread that she had made into the hand of her son Jacob.

18 And he came to his father, and said, “My father!”

And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

19 And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you told me. Please get up, sit and eat of my wild game, that you yourself may bless me.”

20 And Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”

And he said, “Because Yehovah your God put it right in front of me.”

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

22 And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, the hands are Esau’s hands!” 23 And he didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. 24 And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?”

And he said, “I am.”

25 And he said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s wild game, that I myself may bless you.”

And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought wine for him and he drank. 26 And his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.” 27 And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,

30 Now it was, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 And he also had made a tasty dish, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat of his son’s wild game, that you yourself may bless me.”

32 And Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?”

And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

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

34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, my father!”

35 But he said, “Your brother came with deception and has taken away your blessing.”

36 And he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. And now look! He has taken away my blessing!” And he said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

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

38 And Esau said to his father, “Do you have you just one blessing, my father? Bless me, me also, my father!” And Esau raised his voice and cried.

39 And Isaac his father answered and said to him,

41 Now Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

42 And Rebekah was told the words of her older son Esau. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, “Look, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and get up, run away to my brother Laban in Ḥarran. 44 And stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away— 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 lose both of you in one day?”

46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I hate my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the Hittite women, like these, from the women of the land, what good is life to me?”