Genesis 27
27Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he answered him, "Here I am."H1961H3327H2204H5869H3543H7200H7121H6215H1419H1121H559H1121H5592Then he said, "Behold now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death.H559H2204H3045H3117H41943"Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.H5375H3627H8522H7198H3318H7704H6679H6718H67204"And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die."H6213H4303H834H157H935H398H5315H1288H2962H41915Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it.H7259H8085H3327H1696H6215H1121H6215H3212H7704H6679H6718H9356So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Indeed I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,H7259H559H3290H1121H559H8085H1H1696H6215H251H5597'Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'H935H6718H6213H4303H398H1288H6440H3068H6440H41948"Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.H1121H8085H6963H834H66809"Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves.H3212H6629H3947H8147H2896H1423H5795H6213H4303H1H15710"Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death."H935H1H398H834H1288H6440H419411And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man.H3290H559H7259H517H6215H251H8163H376H2509H37612"Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing."H1H4959H5869H8591H935H7045H129313But his mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."H517H559H7045H1121H8085H6963H3212H394714And he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.H3212H3947H935H517H517H6213H4303H1H15715Then Rebekah took the choice clothes of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.H7259H3947H2532H899H1419H1121H6215H1004H3847H3290H6996H112116And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.H3847H5785H1423H5795H3027H2513H667717Then she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.H5414H4303H3899H6213H3027H1121H329018So he went 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 just as you told me; please arise, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me."H3290H559H1H6215H1060H6213H1696H6965H3427H398H6718H5315H128820But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God brought it to me."H3327H559H1121H4672H4116H1121H559H3068H430H7136H644021Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."H3327H559H3290H5066H4184H1121H2088H1121H621522So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."H3290H5066H3327H1H4959H559H6963H3290H6963H3027H3027H621523And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.H5234H3027H8163H251H6215H3027H128824Then he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."H559H1121H6215H55925He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.H559H5066H398H1121H6718H5315H1288H5066H398H935H3196H835426Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near now and kiss me, my son."H1H3327H559H5066H5401H112127And he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said: "Surely, the smell of my son Is like the smell of a field Which the LORD has blessed.H5066H5401H7306H7381H899H1288H559H7200H7381H1121H7381H7704H3068H128828Therefore may God give you Of the dew of heaven, Of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and wine.H430H5414H2919H8064H4924H776H7230H1715H849229Let peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, And let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, And blessed be those who bless you!"H5971H5647H3816H7812H1933H1376H251H517H1121H7812H779H779H1288H128830Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.H3327H3615H1288H3290H3290H389H3318H3318H6440H3327H1H6215H251H935H671831He also had made savory food, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that your soul may bless me."H6213H4303H935H1H559H1H1H6965H398H1121H6718H5315H128832And his father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" So he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."H3327H1H559H559H1121H1060H621533Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, "Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—and indeed he shall be blessed."H3327H2729H1419H3966H2731H559H645H6679H6718H935H398H935H1288H128834When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me—me also, O my father!"H6215H8085H1697H1H6817H1419H3966H4751H6818H559H1H1288H135But he said, "Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing."H559H251H935H4820H3947H129336And Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!" And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"H559H3588H7121H8034H3290H6117H2088H6471H3947H1062H3947H1293H559H680H129337Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Indeed I have made him your master, and all his brethren I have given to him as servants; with grain and wine I have sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?"H3327H6030H559H6215H7760H1376H251H5414H5650H1715H8492H5564H6213H645H112138And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me—me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.H6215H559H1H259H1293H1H1288H1H6215H5375H6963H105839Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above.H3327H1H6030H559H4186H4924H776H2919H8064H592040By your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; And it shall come to pass, when you become restless, That you shall break his yoke from your neck."H2719H2421H5647H251H7300H6561H5923H667741So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob."H6215H7852H3290H5921H1293H834H1H1288H6215H559H3820H3117H60H1H7126H2026H251H329042And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Surely your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you.H1697H6215H1419H1121H5046H7259H7971H7121H3290H6996H1121H559H251H6215H5162H202643"Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.H1121H8085H6963H6965H1272H3837H251H277144"And stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away,H3427H259H3117H834H251H2534H772545"until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved also of you both in one day?"H251H639H7725H7911H6213H7971H3947H4100H7921H8147H259H311746And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"H7259H559H3327H6973H2416H6440H1323H2845H3290H3947H802H1323H2845H1323H776H4100H2416
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