27When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered.H1961H3327H2204H5869H3543H7200H7121H6215H1419H1121H559H1121H5592Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.H559H2204H3045H3117H41943Now then, get your weapons--your quiver and bow--and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.H5375H3627H8522H7198H3318H7704H6679H6718H67204Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."H6213H4303H834H157H935H398H5315H1288H2962H41915Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,H7259H8085H3327H1696H6215H1121H6215H3212H7704H6679H6718H9356Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,H7259H559H3290H1121H559H8085H1H1696H6215H251H5597'Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.'H935H6718H6213H4303H398H1288H6440H3068H6440H41948Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:H1121H8085H6963H834H66809Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.H3212H6629H3947H8147H2896H1423H5795H6213H4303H1H15710Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."H935H1H398H834H1288H6440H419411Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.H3290H559H7259H517H6215H251H8163H376H2509H37612What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing."H1H4959H5869H8591H935H7045H129313His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."H517H559H7045H1121H8085H6963H3212H394714So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.H3212H3947H935H517H517H6213H4303H1H15715Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.H7259H3947H2532H899H1419H1121H6215H1004H3847H3290H6996H112116She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.H3847H5785H1423H5795H3027H2513H667717Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.H5414H4303H3899H6213H3027H1121H329018He went to his father and said, "My father." "Yes, my son," he answered. "Who is it?"H935H1H559H1H559H112119Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing."H3290H559H1H6215H1060H6213H1696H6965H3427H398H6718H5315H128820Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The LORD your God gave me success," he replied.H3327H559H1121H4672H4116H1121H559H3068H430H7136H644021Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not."H3327H559H3290H5066H4184H1121H2088H1121H621522Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."H3290H5066H3327H1H4959H559H6963H3290H6963H3027H3027H621523He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.H5234H3027H8163H251H6215H3027H128824"Are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "I am," he replied.H559H1121H6215H55925Then he said, "My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing." Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.H559H5066H398H1121H6718H5315H1288H5066H398H935H3196H835426Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here, my son, and kiss me."H1H3327H559H5066H5401H112127So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he 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 heaven's dew and of earth's richness--an abundance of grain and new wine.H430H5414H2919H8064H4924H776H7230H1715H849229May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."H5971H5647H3816H7812H1933H1376H251H517H1121H7812H779H779H1288H128830After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.H3327H3615H1288H3290H3290H389H3318H3318H6440H3327H1H6215H251H935H671831He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."H6213H4303H935H1H559H1H1H6965H398H1121H6718H5315H128832His father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau."H3327H1H559H559H1121H1060H621533Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him--and indeed he will be blessed!"H3327H2729H1419H3966H2731H559H645H6679H6718H935H398H935H1288H128834When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me--me too, my father!"H6215H8085H1697H1H6817H1419H3966H4751H6818H559H1H1288H135But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."H559H251H935H4820H3947H129336Esau said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?"H559H3588H7121H8034H3290H6117H2088H6471H3947H1062H3947H1293H559H680H129337Isaac answered Esau, "I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?"H3327H6030H559H6215H7760H1376H251H5414H5650H1715H8492H5564H6213H645H112138Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.H6215H559H1H259H1293H1H1288H1H6215H5375H6963H105839His father Isaac answered him, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above.H3327H1H6030H559H4186H4924H776H2919H8064H592040You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck."H2719H2421H5647H251H7300H6561H5923H667741Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."H6215H7852H3290H5921H1293H834H1H1288H6215H559H3820H3117H60H1H7126H2026H251H329042When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.H1697H6215H1419H1121H5046H7259H7971H7121H3290H6996H1121H559H251H6215H5162H202643Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.H1121H8085H6963H6965H1272H3837H251H277144Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.H3427H259H3117H834H251H2534H772545When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"H251H639H7725H7911H6213H7971H3947H4100H7921H8147H259H311746Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."H7259H559H3327H6973H2416H6440H1323H2845H3290H3947H802H1323H2845H1323H776H4100H2416