27When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."H1961H3327H2204H5869H3543H7200H7121H6215H1419H1121H559H1121H5592He said, "See, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.H559H2204H3045H3117H41943Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me.H5375H3627H8522H7198H3318H7704H6679H6718H67204Then prepare for me savory food, such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."H6213H4303H834H157H935H398H5315H1288H2962H41915Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,H7259H8085H3327H1696H6215H1121H6215H3212H7704H6679H6718H9356Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father say to your brother Esau,H7259H559H3290H1121H559H8085H1H1696H6215H251H5597'Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food to eat, that I may bless you before the LORD before I die.'H935H6718H6213H4303H398H1288H6440H3068H6440H41948Now therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you.H1121H8085H6963H834H66809Go to the flock, and get me two choice kids, so that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he likes;H3212H6629H3947H8147H2896H1423H5795H6213H4303H1H15710and you shall take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."H935H1H398H834H1288H6440H419411But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a man of smooth skin.H3290H559H7259H517H6215H251H8163H376H2509H37612Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse on myself and not a blessing."H1H4959H5869H8591H935H7045H129313His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my word, and go, get them for me."H517H559H7045H1121H8085H6963H3212H394714So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.H3212H3947H935H517H517H6213H4303H1H15715Then Rebekah took the best garments of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob;H7259H3947H2532H899H1419H1121H6215H1004H3847H3290H6996H112116and she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.H3847H5785H1423H5795H3027H2513H667717Then she handed the savory food, and the bread that she had prepared, to her son Jacob.H5414H4303H3899H6213H3027H1121H329018So he went in to his father, and said, "My father"; and he said, "Here I am; who are you, my son?"H935H1H559H1H559H112119Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may bless me."H3290H559H1H6215H1060H6213H1696H6965H3427H398H6718H5315H128820But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the LORD your God granted me success."H3327H559H1121H4672H4116H1121H559H3068H430H7136H644021Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."H3327H559H3290H5066H4184H1121H2088H1121H621522So Jacob went up to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."H3290H5066H3327H1H4959H559H6963H3290H6963H3027H3027H621523He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.H5234H3027H8163H251H6215H3027H128824He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."H559H1121H6215H55925Then he said, "Bring it to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.H559H5066H398H1121H6718H5315H1288H5066H398H935H3196H835426Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."H1H3327H559H5066H5401H112127So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.H5066H5401H7306H7381H899H1288H559H7200H7381H1121H7381H7704H3068H128828May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.H430H5414H2919H8064H4924H776H7230H1715H849229Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"H5971H5647H3816H7812H1933H1376H251H517H1121H7812H779H779H1288H128830As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.H3327H3615H1288H3290H3290H389H3318H3318H6440H3327H1H6215H251H935H671831He also prepared savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father sit up and eat of his son's game, so that you may bless me."H6213H4303H935H1H559H1H1H6965H398H1121H6718H5315H128832His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your firstborn son, Esau."H3327H1H559H559H1121H1060H621533Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and blessed he shall be!"H3327H2729H1419H3966H2731H559H645H6679H6718H935H398H935H1288H128834When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, me also, father!"H6215H8085H1697H1H6817H1419H3966H4751H6818H559H1H1288H135But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing."H559H251H935H4820H3947H129336Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and look, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"H559H3588H7121H8034H3290H6117H2088H6471H3947H1062H3947H1293H559H680H129337Isaac answered Esau, "I have already made him your lord, and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"H3327H6030H559H6215H7760H1376H251H5414H5650H1715H8492H5564H6213H645H112138Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.H6215H559H1H259H1293H1H1288H1H6215H5375H6963H105839Then his father Isaac answered him: "See, away from the fatness of the earth shall your home be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.H3327H1H6030H559H4186H4924H776H2919H8064H592040By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose, you shall break his yoke from your neck."H2719H2421H5647H251H7300H6561H5923H667741Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."H6215H7852H3290H5921H1293H834H1H1288H6215H559H3820H3117H60H1H7126H2026H251H329042But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.H1697H6215H1419H1121H5046H7259H7971H7121H3290H6996H1121H559H251H6215H5162H202643Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,H1121H8085H6963H6965H1272H3837H251H277144and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away—H3427H259H3117H834H251H2534H772545until your brother's anger against you turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send, and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"H251H639H7725H7911H6213H7971H3947H4100H7921H8147H259H311746Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"H7259H559H3327H6973H2416H6440H1323H2845H3290H3947H802H1323H2845H1323H776H4100H2416
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