It came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”
He said, “See now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death.
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt down some wild game for me.
Make me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for wild game and to bring it.
Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
‘Bring me wild game and make me savory food, so that I can eat and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.
Go now to the flock and get me from there two good young goats. I will make from them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
You will bring it to your father so that he can eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver and I would bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”
But his mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother. And his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, that were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth of his neck.
She gave the savory food and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
He came to his father and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my wild game, that your soul may bless me.”
Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”
Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
So he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”
And he said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s wild game, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now and kiss me, my son.”
He came near and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing and blessed him and said, “Look, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed.
God give you of the dew of heaven, of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and new wine.
Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
He also made savory food and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s wild game, that your soul may bless me.”
Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
then Isaac trembled with an exceedingly great trembling and said, “Who then is he who has hunted game and brought it me, and I have eaten of all of it before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!”
But he said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
And he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”
Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling place, and away from the dew of heaven from above.
By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen when you will break loose that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
Then 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.”
The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
So now my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
and stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
And 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 such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”