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1And it happened that when Isaac was old and his eyesight was weak, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”[#Literally “his eyes were weak from seeing”; #That is, Esau]
2And he said, “Look, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
3So now, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt food for me.
4Then make for me tasty food like I love, and bring it to me. And I will eat it so that I can bless you before I die.[#Or “my soul”]
5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and when Esau went to the field to hunt wild game to bring back,
6Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother saying,
7‘Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat it and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’
8So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you.
9Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them as tasty food for your father, just as he likes.
10Then you must take it to your father and he will eat it so that he may bless you before his death.”
11Then Jacob said to his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.
12Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes as a mocker, and he will bring upon me a curse and not a blessing.”
13Then his mother said to him, “Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice—go and get them for me.”
14So he went and took them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.
15Then Rebekah took some of her older son Esau’s best garments that were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son.
16And she put the skins of the young goats over his hands and over the smooth part of his neck.
17And she put the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob, her son.
18And he went to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
19And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you may bless me.”[#Or “your soul”]
20Then Isaac said to his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because Yahweh your God caused me to find it.”[#Literally “what is this?”; #Literally “made it to happen before me”]
21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please, come near and let me feel you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not?”[#Literally “are you this one?”]
22And Jacob drew near 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.”
23And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him.
24And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”[#Literally “are you this one?”]
25Then he said, “Bring it near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that I may bless you.” And he brought it to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank.[#Or “my soul”]
26Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.”
27And he drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said,[#That is, Isaac]
“Look, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed!
28May God give you of the dew of heaven
29Let peoples serve you,
Be lord of your brothers,
Cursed be those cursing you,
30And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, immediately after Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came back from his hunting.[#Literally “it was only”]
31He too prepared tasty food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat from the wild game of his son, that you may bless me.”[#Or “your soul”]
32And Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
33Then Isaac trembled violently. Then he said, “Who then was he that hunted wild game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I blessed him? Moreover, he will be blessed!”[#Literally “trembled a great trembling unto exceeding”]
34When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, “Bless me as well, my father!”
35And he said, “Your brother came in deceit and took your blessing.”
36Then he said, “Isn’t that why he is named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”[#Literally “that his name is called Jacob?”]
37Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?”
38And Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,
“Your home shall be from the fatness of the land,
40But by your sword you shall live,
But it shall be that when free yourself
41Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother.”[#That is, “to himself”]
42But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called for her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, “Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself concerning you, intending to kill you.
43Now then, my son, listen to my voice; arise and flee to Haran to Laban my brother.
44Stay with him a few days until the wrath of your brother has turned—
45until the anger of your brother turns from you and he has forgotten what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I lose the two of you in one day?”
46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the native women, what am I living for?”[#Or “daughters of the Hittites”; #Or “daughters of the Hittites”; #Literally “daughters of the land”; #Literally “What is life to me?”]