1 Now it came about, when Isaac was old and AGen 48:10; 1 Sam 3:2his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his BGen 25:25, 33, 34older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.” 2 1Lit HeAGen 47:29Isaac said, “Behold now, I am old and I do not know the day of my death. 3  “Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and AGen 25:28hunt game for me; 4 and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that AGen 27:19, 25, 31; 48:9, 15, 16; Deut 33:1; Heb 11:20my soul may bless you before I die.”

5 Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring home, 6 AGen 25:28Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying, 7 ‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the Loʀᴅ before my death.’ 8  “Now therefore, my son, AGen 27:13, 43listen to 1Lit my voiceme 2Lit according to whatas I command you. 9  “Go now to the flock and 1Lit takebring me two choice 2Lit kids of goatsyoung goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves. 10  “Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.” 11 Jacob 1Lit said toanswered his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother is a AGen 25:25hairy man and I am a smooth man. 12  “AGen 27:21, 22Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a 1Lit mockerdeceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.” 13 But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only AGen 27:8obey my voice, and go, get them for me.” 14 So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved. 15 Then Rebekah took the 1Lit desirable; or choicebest AGen 27:27garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And she put the skins of the 1Lit kids of the goatsyoung goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 She also gave the savory food and the bread, which she had made, 1Lit into the hand ofto her son Jacob.

18 Then he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. AGen 27:31Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that 1Lit your soulBGen 27:4you may bless me.” 20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “AGen 24:12Because the Loʀᴅ your God caused it to happen to me.” 21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come close, that AGen 27:12I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.” 22 So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23 He did not recognize him, because his hands were AGen 27:16hairy 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 So he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that 1Lit my soulAGen 27:4I may bless you.” And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank. 26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come close and kiss me, my son.” 27 So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he AHeb 11:20blessed him and said,

30 Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “AGen 27:19Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that 1Lit your soulBGen 27:4you may bless me.” 32 Isaac his father said to him, “AGen 27:18Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, BGen 25:33, 34your firstborn, Esau.” 33 Then Isaac 1Lit trembled with a very great tremblingtrembled violently, and said, “AGen 27:35Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? BGen 25:23; 28:3, 4; Num 23:20Yes, and he shall be blessed.” 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, AHeb 12:17he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” 35 And he said, “AGen 27:19Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.” 36 Then he said, “1Or Was he then named Jacob that he hasIs he not rightly named AGen 25:26, 32-34Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 37 But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him AGen 27:28, 29your master, and all his 1Lit brothersrelatives I have given to him 2Lit foras servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?” 38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and AHeb 12:17wept.

39 Then AHeb 11:20Isaac his father answered and said to him,

41 So Esau AGen 32:3-11; 37:4, 8bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said 1Lit in his heartto himself, “BGen 50:2-4, 10The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” 42 Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, “Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you. 43  “Now therefore, my son, AGen 27:8, 13obey my voice, and arise, 1Lit flee for yourselfflee to BGen 11:31Haran, to my brother CGen 24:29Laban! 44  “Stay with him AGen 31:41a few days, until your brother’s fury 1Lit turns awaysubsides, 45 until your brother’s anger 1Lit turns away from youagainst you subsides and he forgets AGen 27:12, 19, 35what you did to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of 1Lit my lifeliving because of AGen 26:34, 35; 28:8the daughters of Heth; BGen 24:3if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”