1When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.[ † ]Genesis 35:28Genesis 48:101 Samuel 3:2
2“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.[ † ]Proverbs 27:1James 4:14 3Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.[ † ]Genesis 25:27-28 4Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”[ † ]Genesis 27:19-25, 27, 31Genesis 48:9-15, 16Genesis 49:28Deuteronomy 33:1Hebrews 11:20
5Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back, 6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, 7‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’
8Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.[ † ]Genesis 27:13-43 9Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.[ † ]Genesis 27:4 10Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”[ † ]Genesis 27:4Genesis 48:16
11Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.[ † ]Genesis 25:25 12What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”[ † ]Genesis 27:21-22Genesis 9:25Deuteronomy 27:18
13His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”[ † ]Genesis 43:91 Samuel 25:242 Samuel 14:9Matthew 27:25
14So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.[ † ]Proverbs 23:3Luke 21:34 15And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.[ † ]Genesis 27:27 16She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
18So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
19Jacob 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 bless me.”[ † ]Genesis 27:4
20But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied.
21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”[ † ]Genesis 27:12
22So Jacob came 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.” 23Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.[ † ]Genesis 27:16
24Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
25“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.[ † ]Genesis 27:4-10, 19, 31
26Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
30As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt. 31He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”[ † ]Genesis 27:4
32But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
33Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”[ † ]Genesis 25:23Genesis 28:3-4Numbers 23:20Romans 11:29
34When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”[ † ]Hebrews 12:17
35But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”[ † ]Genesis 25:26-32-34
37But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”[ † ]2 Samuel 8:14Genesis 27:28-29
38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.[ † ]Hebrews 12:17
41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”[ † ]Genesis 26:27Genesis 32:3-11Genesis 37:4-5, 8Genesis 50:2-4, 10Obadiah 10
42When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.[ † ]Psalms 64:5 43So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.[ † ]Genesis 11:31Genesis 25:20Genesis 28:2-5 44Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—[ † ]Genesis 31:41 45until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”[ † ]Genesis 26:34-35Genesis 28:8Genesis 24:3