27Genesis 27

Isaac Blesses Jacob

1Isaac was now old and had become blind. He sent for his older son Esau and said to him, “Son!” “Yes,” he answered.Select Genesis 27:1

2Isaac said, “You see that I am old and may die soon.Select Genesis 27:2

3Take your bow and arrows, go out into the country, and kill an animal for me.Select Genesis 27:3

4Cook me some of that tasty food that I like, and bring it to me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my final blessing before I die.”Select Genesis 27:4

5While Isaac was talking to Esau, Rebecca was listening. So when Esau went out to hunt,Select Genesis 27:5

6she said to Jacob, “I have just heard your father say to Esau,Select Genesis 27:6

7‘Bring me an animal and cook it for me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’Select Genesis 27:7

8Now, son,” Rebecca continued, “listen to me and do what I say.Select Genesis 27:8

9Go to the flock and pick out two fat young goats, so that I can cook them and make some of that food your father likes so much.Select Genesis 27:9

10You can take it to him to eat, and he will give you his blessing before he dies.”Select Genesis 27:10

11But Jacob said to his mother, “You know that Esau is a hairy man, but I have smooth skin.Select Genesis 27:11

12Perhaps my father will touch me and find out that I am deceiving him; in this way, I will bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”Select Genesis 27:12

13His mother answered, “Let any curse against you fall on me, my son; just do as I say, and go and get the goats for me.”Select Genesis 27:13

14So he went to get them and brought them to her, and she cooked the kind of food that his father liked.Select Genesis 27:14

15Then she took Esau's best clothes, which she kept in the house, and put them on Jacob.Select Genesis 27:15

16She put the skins of the goats on his arms and on the hairless part of his neck.Select Genesis 27:16

17She handed him the tasty food, along with the bread she had baked.Select Genesis 27:17

18Then Jacob went to his father and said, “Father!” “Yes,” he answered. “Which of my sons are you?”Select Genesis 27:18

19Jacob answered, “I am your older son Esau; I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessing.”Select Genesis 27:19

20Isaac said, “How did you find it so quickly, son?” Jacob answered, “The Lord your God helped me find it.”Select Genesis 27:20

21Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so that I can touch you. Are you really Esau?”Select Genesis 27:21

22Jacob moved closer to his father, who felt him and said, “Your voice sounds like Jacob's voice, but your arms feel like Esau's arms.”Select Genesis 27:22

23He did not recognize Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau's. He was about to give him his blessing,Select Genesis 27:23

24but asked again, “Are you really Esau?” “I am,” he answered.Select Genesis 27:24

25Isaac said, “Bring me some of the meat. After I eat it, I will give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him, and he also brought him some wine to drink.Select Genesis 27:25

26Then his father said to him, “Come closer and kiss me, son.”Select Genesis 27:26

27As he came up to kiss him, Isaac smelled his clothes—so he gave him his blessing. He said, “The pleasant smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.Select Genesis 27:27

28May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile! May he give you plenty of grain and wine!Select Genesis 27:28

29May nations be your servants, and may peoples bow down before you. May you rule over all your relatives, and may your mother's descendants bow down before you. May those who curse you be cursed, and may those who bless you be blessed.”Select Genesis 27:29

Esau Begs for Isaac's Blessing

30Isaac finished giving his blessing, and as soon as Jacob left, his brother Esau came in from hunting.Select Genesis 27:30

31He also cooked some tasty food and took it to his father. He said, “Please, father, sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessing.”Select Genesis 27:31

32“Who are you?” Isaac asked. “Your older son Esau,” he answered.Select Genesis 27:32

33Isaac began to tremble and shake all over, and he asked, “Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came. I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever.”Select Genesis 27:33

34When Esau heard this, he cried out loudly and bitterly and said, “Give me your blessing also, father!”Select Genesis 27:34

35Isaac answered, “Your brother came and deceived me. He has taken away your blessing.”Select Genesis 27:35

36Esau said, “This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the first-born son, and now he has taken away my blessing. Haven't you saved a blessing for me?”Select Genesis 27:36

37Isaac answered, “I have already made him master over you, and I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him grain and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!”Select Genesis 27:37

38Esau continued to plead with his father: “Do you have only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” He began to cry.Select Genesis 27:38

39Then Isaac said to him, “No dew from heaven for you, No fertile fields for you.Select Genesis 27:39

40You will live by your sword, But be your brother's slave. Yet when you rebel, You will break away from his control.”Select Genesis 27:40

41Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, “The time to mourn my father's death is near; then I will kill Jacob.”Select Genesis 27:41

42But when Rebecca heard about Esau's plan, she sent for Jacob and said, “Listen, your brother Esau is planning to get even with you and kill you.Select Genesis 27:42

43Now, son, do what I say. Go at once to my brother Laban in Haran,Select Genesis 27:43

44and stay with him for a while, until your brother's anger cools downSelect Genesis 27:44

45and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send someone to bring you back. Why should I lose both of my sons on the same day?”Select Genesis 27:45

Isaac Sends Jacob to Laban

46Rebecca said to Isaac, “I am sick and tired of Esau's foreign wives. If Jacob also marries one of these Hittites, I might as well die.”Select Genesis 27:46