 1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his oldest son Esau and said to him, my son. He replied, I am here. 2 He said again, Here am I. He said, Behold now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death. 3 Now please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. 4 Make tasty meat for me, such as I like, and bring to me so that I may eat so that my soul may bless you before I die. 5 Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game in order to bring it. 6 Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob saying, Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau saying, 7 Bring me game, and make me delicious things so that I may eat and bless you before the Lord before my death. 8 Now, my son, obey my voice according to what 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 delicious things for your father, such as he loves. 10 You shall bring it to your father so that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death. 11 Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 My father will perhaps feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. And I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. 13 His mother said to him, your curse be upon me, my son, only obey my voice and go bring them to me. 14 He went. And he took them and brought to his mother. And his mother made delicious things such as his father loved. 15 Rebekah took the clothes of her older son Esau, the costly ones that were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 She put the skins from the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. 17 She gave the delicious things and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob. 18 He came to his father and said, my father. And he said, Here am I. Who are you, my son? 19 Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you asked me. Arise, I ask you. Sit and eat of my game so that your soul may bless me. 20 Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God brought it to me. 21 Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I ask you so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are truly my son Esau or not. 22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands the hands of Esau. 23 He did not know him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. And he blessed him. 24 He said, Are you truly my son Esau? And he said, I am. 25 He said, Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought him wine, and he drank. 26 His father Isaac said to him, Come near now and kiss me, my son. 27 He came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed. 28 May God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine. 29 Let people serve you and let nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you and blessed be those who bless you. 30 As soon as Isaac stopped blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone from the presence of Isaac his father, his brother Esau came in from hunting. 31 He made tasty meat and brought to his father and said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's game so that your soul may bless me. 32 His father Isaac said to him, Who are you? He said, I am your firstborn son Esau. 33 Isaac trembled with a great trembling and said, Who then was the one who has hunted deer and brought to me and I ate it all before you came and blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed. 34 When Esau heard the voice of his father, he cried out with a great and exceeding bitter cry and said to his father, Bless me also my father. 35 He said, Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing. 36 He said, It is because his name is called Jacob? For he has supplanted me two times. He took away my birthright and now he has taken away my blessing. He said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me? 37 Isaac said to Esau, I have made him your lord and I have given him all his brothers as servants. I have supported him with grain and wine, so what shall I do now for you my son? 38 Esau said to his father, Have you even one blessing my father? Bless me also my father. Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 39 Then Isaac his father said to him, Your dwelling will be from the bounty+ of the earth and from the dew of Heaven from above. 40 You will live by your sword and serve your brother. But when you acquire+ your own dominion, you will break his yoke from off your neck. 41 Then Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had blessed him. Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob. 42 These words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah, so she called her younger son Jacob and said to him, Your brother Esau is going to bring himself on you to kill you. 43 Therefore my son, obey my voice and flee to my brother Laban in Haran. 44 Stay with him a few days until your brother's fury turns away. 45 Wait until your brother's anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will bring you from there. Why should I be deprived+ of both of you in one day? 46 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 of the daughters of the land what good is my life to me?
|