Genesis 27:38 - Prayer Tents

27When Isaac had become an old man and was nearly blind, he called his eldest son, Esau, and said, "My son." "Yes, Father?"H1961H3327H2204H5869H3543H7200H7121H6215H1419H1121H559H1121H559 2"I'm an old man," he said; "I might die any day now.H559H2204H3045H3117H4194 3Do me a favor: Get your quiver of arrows and your bow and go out in the country and hunt me some game.H5375H3627H8522H7198H3318H7704H6679H6718H6720 4Then 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."H6213H4303H834H157H935H398H5315H1288H2962H4191 5Rebekah 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,H7259H8085H3327H1696H6215H1121H6215H3212H7704H6679H6718H935 6Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob. "I just overheard your father talking with your brother, Esau. He said,H7259H559H3290H1121H559H8085H1H1696H6215H251H559 7'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.'H935H6718H6213H4303H398H1288H6440H3068H6440H4194 8"Now, my son, listen to me. Do what I tell you.H1121H8085H6963H834H6680 9Go 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.H3212H6629H3947H8147H2896H1423H5795H6213H4303H1H157 10Then you'll take it to your father, he'll eat and bless you before he dies."H935H1H398H834H1288H6440H4194 11"But Mother," Jacob said, "my brother Esau is a hairy man and I have smooth skin.H3290H559H7259H517H6215H251H8163H376H2509H376 12What 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."H1H4959H5869H8591H935H7045H1293 13"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."H517H559H7045H1121H8085H6963H3212H3947 14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother and she cooked a hearty meal, the kind his father loved so much.H3212H3947H935H517H517H6213H4303H1H157 15Rebekah took the dress-up clothes of her older son Esau and put them on her younger son Jacob.H7259H3947H2532H899H1419H1121H6215H1004H3847H3290H6996H1121 16She took the goatskins and covered his hands and the smooth nape of his neck.H3847H5785H1423H5795H3027H2513H6677 17Then she placed the hearty meal she had fixed and fresh bread she'd baked into the hands of her son Jacob.H5414H4303H3899H6213H3027H1121H3290 18He went to his father and said, "My father!" "Yes?" he said. "Which son are you?"H935H1H559H1H559H1121 19Jacob 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."H3290H559H1H6215H1060H6213H1696H6965H3427H398H6718H5315H1288 20Isaac said, "So soon? How did you get it so quickly?" "Because your GOD cleared the way for me."H3327H559H1121H4672H4116H1121H559H3068H430H7136H6440 21Isaac said, "Come close, son; let me touch you—are you really my son Esau?"H3327H559H3290H5066H4184H1121H2088H1121H6215 22So 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."H3290H5066H3327H1H4959H559H6963H3290H6963H3027H3027H6215 23He didn't recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's. But as he was about to bless himH5234H3027H8163H251H6215H3027H1288 24he pressed him, "You're sure? You are my son Esau?" "Yes. I am."H559H1121H6215H559 25Isaac 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.H559H5066H398H1121H6718H5315H1288H5066H398H935H3196H8354 26Then Isaac said, "Come close, son, and kiss me."H1H3327H559H5066H5401H1121 27He 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.H5066H5401H7306H7381H899H1288H559H7200H7381H1121H7381H7704H3068H1288 28May God give you of Heaven's dew and Earth's bounty of grain and wine.H430H5414H2919H8064H4924H776H7230H1715H8492 29May 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.H5971H5647H3816H7812H1933H1376H251H517H1121H7812H779H779H1288H1288 30And then right after Isaac had blessed Jacob and Jacob had left, Esau showed up from the hunt.H3327H3615H1288H3290H3290H389H3318H3318H6440H3327H1H6215H251H935H6718 31He 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."H6213H4303H935H1H559H1H1H6965H398H1121H6718H5315H1288 32His father Isaac said, "And who are you?" "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."H3327H1H559H559H1121H1060H6215 33Isaac 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!"H3327H2729H1419H3966H2731H559H645H6679H6718H935H398H935H1288H1288 34Esau, hearing his father's words, sobbed violently and most bitterly, and cried to his father, "My father! Can't you also bless me?"H6215H8085H1697H1H6817H1419H3966H4751H6818H559H1H1288H1 35"Your brother," he said, "came here falsely and took your blessing."H559H251H935H4820H3947H1293 36Esau 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?"H559H3588H7121H8034H3290H6117H2088H6471H3947H1062H3947H1293H559H680H1293 37Isaac 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?"H3327H6030H559H6215H7760H1376H251H5414H5650H1715H8492H5564H6213H645H1121 38"But don't you have just one blessing for me, Father? Oh, bless me my father! Bless me!" Esau sobbed inconsolably.H6215H559H1H259H1293H1H1288H1H6215H5375H6963H1058 39Isaac said to him, You'll live far from Earth's bounty, remote from Heaven's dew.H3327H1H6030H559H4186H4924H776H2919H8064H5920 40You'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.H2719H2421H5647H251H7300H6561H5923H6677 41Esau 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."H6215H7852H3290H5921H1293H834H1H1288H6215H559H3820H3117H60H1H7126H2026H251H3290 42When 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.H1697H6215H1419H1121H5046H7259H7971H7121H3290H6996H1121H559H251H6215H5162H2026 43Son, listen to me. Get out of here. Run for your life to Haran, to my brother Laban.H1121H8085H6963H6965H1272H3837H251H2771 44Live with him for a while until your brother cools down,H3427H259H3117H834H251H2534H7725 45until 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?"H251H639H7725H7911H6213H7971H3947H4100H7921H8147H259H3117 46Rebekah spoke to Isaac, "I'm sick to death of these Hittite women. If Jacob also marries a native Hittite woman, why live?"H7259H559H3327H6973H2416H6440H1323H2845H3290H3947H802H1323H2845H1323H776H4100H2416