Genesis 27

27When Isaac had become an old man and was nearly blind, he called his eldest son, Esau, and said, "My son." "Yes, Father?"H1961H3327H2204H5869H3543H7200H7121H6215H1419H1121H559H1121H5592"I'm an old man," he said; "I might die any day now.H559H2204H3045H3117H41943Do me a favor: Get your quiver of arrows and your bow and go out in the country and hunt me some game.H5375H3627H8522H7198H3318H7704H6679H6718H67204Then fix me a hearty meal, the kind that you know I like, and bring it to me to eat so that I can give you my personal blessing before I die."H6213H4303H834H157H935H398H5315H1288H2962H41915Rebekah was eavesdropping as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. As soon as Esau had gone off to the country to hunt game for his father,H7259H8085H3327H1696H6215H1121H6215H3212H7704H6679H6718H9356Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob. "I just overheard your father talking with your brother, Esau. He said,H7259H559H3290H1121H559H8085H1H1696H6215H251H5597'Bring me some game and fix me a hearty meal so that I can eat and bless you with GOD's blessing before I die.'H935H6718H6213H4303H398H1288H6440H3068H6440H41948"Now, my son, listen to me. Do what I tell you.H1121H8085H6963H834H66809Go to the flock and get me two young goats. Pick the best; I'll prepare them into a hearty meal, the kind that your father loves.H3212H6629H3947H8147H2896H1423H5795H6213H4303H1H15710Then you'll take it to your father, he'll eat and bless you before he dies."H935H1H398H834H1288H6440H419411"But Mother," Jacob said, "my brother Esau is a hairy man and I have smooth skin.H3290H559H7259H517H6215H251H8163H376H2509H37612What happens if my father touches me? He'll think I'm playing games with him. I'll bring down a curse on myself instead of a blessing."H1H4959H5869H8591H935H7045H129313"If it comes to that," said his mother, "I'll take the curse on myself. Now, just do what I say. Go and get the goats."H517H559H7045H1121H8085H6963H3212H394714So he went and got them and brought them to his mother and she cooked a hearty meal, the kind his father loved so much.H3212H3947H935H517H517H6213H4303H1H15715Rebekah took the dress-up clothes of her older son Esau and put them on her younger son Jacob.H7259H3947H2532H899H1419H1121H6215H1004H3847H3290H6996H112116She took the goatskins and covered his hands and the smooth nape of his neck.H3847H5785H1423H5795H3027H2513H667717Then she placed the hearty meal she had fixed and fresh bread she'd baked into the hands of her son Jacob.H5414H4303H3899H6213H3027H1121H329018He went to his father and said, "My father!" "Yes?" he said. "Which son are you?"H935H1H559H1H559H112119Jacob answered his father, "I'm your firstborn son Esau. I did what you told me. Come now; sit up and eat of my game so you can give me your personal blessing."H3290H559H1H6215H1060H6213H1696H6965H3427H398H6718H5315H128820Isaac said, "So soon? How did you get it so quickly?" "Because your GOD cleared the way for me."H3327H559H1121H4672H4116H1121H559H3068H430H7136H644021Isaac said, "Come close, son; let me touch you—are you really my son Esau?"H3327H559H3290H5066H4184H1121H2088H1121H621522So Jacob moved close to his father Isaac. Isaac felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of Esau."H3290H5066H3327H1H4959H559H6963H3290H6963H3027H3027H621523He didn't recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's. But as he was about to bless himH5234H3027H8163H251H6215H3027H128824he pressed him, "You're sure? You are my son Esau?" "Yes. I am."H559H1121H6215H55925Isaac said, "Bring the food so I can eat of my son's game and give you my personal blessing." Jacob brought it to him and he ate. He also brought him wine and he drank.H559H5066H398H1121H6718H5315H1288H5066H398H935H3196H835426Then Isaac said, "Come close, son, and kiss me."H1H3327H559H5066H5401H112127He came close and kissed him and Isaac smelled the smell of his clothes. Finally, he blessed him, Ahhh. The smell of my son is like the smell of the open country blessed by GOD.H5066H5401H7306H7381H899H1288H559H7200H7381H1121H7381H7704H3068H128828May God give you of Heaven's dew and Earth's bounty of grain and wine.H430H5414H2919H8064H4924H776H7230H1715H849229May peoples serve you and nations honor you. You will master your brothers, and your mother's sons will honor you. Those who curse you will be cursed, those who bless you will be blessed.H5971H5647H3816H7812H1933H1376H251H517H1121H7812H779H779H1288H128830And then right after Isaac had blessed Jacob and Jacob had left, Esau showed up from the hunt.H3327H3615H1288H3290H3290H389H3318H3318H6440H3327H1H6215H251H935H671831He also had prepared a hearty meal. He came to his father and said, "Let my father get up and eat of his son's game, that he may give me his personal blessing."H6213H4303H935H1H559H1H1H6965H398H1121H6718H5315H128832His father Isaac said, "And who are you?" "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."H3327H1H559H559H1121H1060H621533Isaac started to tremble, shaking violently. He said, "Then who hunted game and brought it to me? I finished the meal just now, before you walked in. And I blessed him—he's blessed for good!"H3327H2729H1419H3966H2731H559H645H6679H6718H935H398H935H1288H128834Esau, hearing his father's words, sobbed violently and most bitterly, and cried to his father, "My father! Can't you also bless me?"H6215H8085H1697H1H6817H1419H3966H4751H6818H559H1H1288H135"Your brother," he said, "came here falsely and took your blessing."H559H251H935H4820H3947H129336Esau said, "Not for nothing was he named Jacob, the Heel. Twice now he's tricked me: first he took my birthright and now he's taken my blessing." He begged, "Haven't you kept back any blessing for me?"H559H3588H7121H8034H3290H6117H2088H6471H3947H1062H3947H1293H559H680H129337Isaac answered Esau, "I've made him your master, and all his brothers his servants, and lavished grain and wine on him. I've given it all away. What's left for you, my son?"H3327H6030H559H6215H7760H1376H251H5414H5650H1715H8492H5564H6213H645H112138"But don't you have just one blessing for me, Father? Oh, bless me my father! Bless me!" Esau sobbed inconsolably.H6215H559H1H259H1293H1H1288H1H6215H5375H6963H105839Isaac said to him, You'll live far from Earth's bounty, remote from Heaven's dew.H3327H1H6030H559H4186H4924H776H2919H8064H592040You'll live by your sword, hand-to-mouth, and you'll serve your brother. But when you can't take it any more you'll break loose and run free.H2719H2421H5647H251H7300H6561H5923H667741Esau seethed in anger against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him; he brooded, "The time for mourning my father's death is close. And then I'll kill my brother Jacob."H6215H7852H3290H5921H1293H834H1H1288H6215H559H3820H3117H60H1H7126H2026H251H329042When these words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she called her younger son Jacob and said, "Your brother Esau is plotting vengeance against you. He's going to kill you.H1697H6215H1419H1121H5046H7259H7971H7121H3290H6996H1121H559H251H6215H5162H202643Son, listen to me. Get out of here. Run for your life to Haran, to my brother Laban.H1121H8085H6963H6965H1272H3837H251H277144Live with him for a while until your brother cools down,H3427H259H3117H834H251H2534H772545until his anger subsides and he forgets what you did to him. I'll then send for you and bring you back. Why should I lose both of you the same day?"H251H639H7725H7911H6213H7971H3947H4100H7921H8147H259H311746Rebekah spoke to Isaac, "I'm sick to death of these Hittite women. If Jacob also marries a native Hittite woman, why live?"H7259H559H3327H6973H2416H6440H1323H2845H3290H3947H802H1323H2845H1323H776H4100H2416