Genesis 27

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1 When Isaac grew old and blurred the sight of his eyes, he called his eldest son Esau and said to him: "My son!" And he said to him, "Here I am."
2 He said: "Behold, I have grown old; I do not know the day of my death;
3 Take now your tools, your quiver and your bow, go into the field, and I eat game,
4 And cook me the food that I love, and bring me to eat, that my soul may bless you, before I die.
5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So Esau went into the field to get and bring game;

6th And Rebekah said to her son Jacob: Behold, I have heard your father say to your brother Esau:
7th Bring me game and prepare me a dish; I sing and I will bless you before the face of the Lord, before my death.
8 Now, my son, listen to my words in what I command you:
9 Go to [the flock] and take me there two good kid, and I will cook from them your father a dish, which he loves,
10 And you will bring it to your father, and he will eat to bless you before his death.
eleven Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: Esau, my brother, a man of shaggy, and I am a smooth man;
12 Maybe my father will feel me, and I'll be in his eyes a liar and I'll put a curse on myself, not a blessing.
13 His mother said to him: "Let my curse be on me, my son, only listen to my words and go, bring it to me."
14 He went, and took, and brought his mother; And his mother made the dish that his father loved.
15 And Rebekah took the rich garment of her eldest son Esau, who was with her in the house, and clothed her youngest son Jacob;
16 His hands and his smooth neck encircled the skin of the kids;
17th And gave the food and the bread that she had prepared, into the hands of Jacob, her son.

18 He went in to his father and said: "My father!" And he said, Here am I. Who are you, my son?
19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn." I did as you told me; Arise, sit down and eat my wild things, that your soul may bless me.
20 And Isaac said to his son, "What have you found so soon, my son?" He said: because the Lord your God sent me to meet.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come, I will touch thee, my son, are you my son Esau, or not?
22 Jacob went up to Isaac his father, and he felt it and said: the voice, the voice of Jacob; But the hands, the hands of Esauff.
23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were like the hands of Esau, his brother, shaggy; And blessed him
24 And said: Are you my son Esau? He answered: I am.
25 [Isaac] said: Give it to me, I will eat the wild game of my son, that my soul may bless you. [Jacob] gave it to him, and he ate; Brought him wine, and he drank.
26th Isaac, his father, said to him: Come, kiss me, my son.
27th He walked over and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said: Behold, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed;
28 May God grant you from the dew of heaven and from the fat of the earth, and plenty of bread and wine;
29 Let the nations serve you, and let the nations worship you; Be lord over thy brethren, and let the sons of thy mother worship thee; Cursing you are cursed; Blessed are you who bless you!

thirty How soon Isaac made a blessing over Jacob, and as soon as Jacob came out from the face of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came from his catch.
31 He also prepared a meal, and brought it to his father, and said to his father: Arise, my father, and eat the fowl of your son, that your soul may bless me.
32 Isaac, his father, said to him: Who are you? He said: I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.
33 And Isaac trembled with great trembling, and said: Who is this, who took out the game and brought it to me, and I ate from everything before you came, and I blessed him? He will be blessed.
34 Esau, after hearing the words of his father, raised a loud and very bitter cry and said to his father: "My father!" Bless me also.
35 But he said: Your brother came with cunning and took your blessing.
36 And he said: Is not this why the name was given to him: Jacob, that he stumbled me twice already? He took my birthright, and, behold, now he took my blessing. And he said, "Have you not given me a blessing?"
37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him master over you, and given all his brothers to him as slaves; Gave him bread and wine; What will I do for you, my son?
38 But Esau said to his father: Do you really have one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 And Isaac his father answered, and said unto him: Behold, the fatness of the earth is thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above;
40 And you will live by your sword, and will serve your brother; There will be a time when you will resist and overthrow his yoke from the neck.

41 And Esau hated Jacob for the blessing that his father had blessed him; And Esau said in his heart, The days of weeping are approaching my father, and I will kill Jacob my brother.
42 And the words of Esau, her eldest son, were recounted to Rebekah; And she sent, and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him: "Behold, Esau, your brother, is threatening to kill you;
43 And now, my son, listen to my words, get up, run to Laban, my brother, in Harran,
44 And live with him a few times, until your brother's fury is satisfied,
45 Until your brother's anger is at your touch, and he will forget what you did to him: then I will send and take you from there; Why should I lose both of you in one day?
46 And Rebekah said unto Isaac: I am not glad of the life of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of the Hittites, what are these, from the daughters of this land, then what do I need life for?

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