26:34 When ¹  Esau was forty years old, ²  he married ³  Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 26:35 They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety. ⁴ 

27:1 When ⁵  Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, ⁶  he called his older ⁷  son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau ⁸  replied. 27:2 Isaac ⁹  said, “Since ¹⁰  I am so old, I could die at any time. ¹¹  27:3 Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game ¹²  for me. 27:4 Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then ¹³  I will eat it so that I may bless you ¹⁴  before I die.”

27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. ¹⁵  When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back, ¹⁶  27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau, 27:7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat ¹⁷  it and bless you ¹⁸  in the presence of the Lord ¹⁹  before I die.’ 27:8 Now then, my son, do ²⁰  exactly what I tell you! ²¹  27:9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare ²²  them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 27:10 Then you will take ²³  it to your father. Thus he will eat it ²⁴  and ²⁵  bless you before he dies.”

27:11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin! ²⁶  27:12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him ²⁷  and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.” 27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, ²⁸  my son! Just obey me! ²⁹  Go and get them for me!”

27:14 So he went and got the goats ³⁰  and brought them to his mother. She ³¹  prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it. 27:15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. 27:16 She put the skins of the young goats ³²  on his hands ³³  and the smooth part of his neck. 27:17 Then she handed ³⁴  the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

27:18 He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac ³⁵  replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?” ³⁶  27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up ³⁷  and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.” ³⁸  27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world ³⁹  did you find it so quickly, ⁴⁰  my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” ⁴¹  he replied. ⁴²  27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, ⁴³  my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.” ⁴⁴  27:22 So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.” 27:23 He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob. ⁴⁵  27:24 Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob ⁴⁶  replied. 27:25 Isaac ⁴⁷  said, “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. ⁴⁸  Then I will bless you.” ⁴⁹  So Jacob ⁵⁰  brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac ⁵¹  drank. 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.” 27:27 So Jacob ⁵²  went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent ⁵³  of his clothing, he blessed him, saying,

“Yes, ⁵⁴  my son smells

like the scent of an open field

which the Lord has blessed.

27:28 May God give you

the dew of the sky ⁵⁵ 

and the richness ⁵⁶  of the earth,

and plenty of grain and new wine.

27:29 May peoples serve you

and nations bow down to you.

You will be ⁵⁷  lord ⁵⁸  over your brothers,

and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. ⁵⁹ 

May those who curse you be cursed,

and those who bless you be blessed.”

27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left ⁶⁰  his father’s ⁶¹  presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. ⁶²  27:31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau ⁶³  said to him, “My father, get up ⁶⁴  and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” ⁶⁵  27:32 His father Isaac asked, ⁶⁶  “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” ⁶⁷  he replied, “Esau!” 27:33 Isaac began to shake violently ⁶⁸  and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. ⁶⁹  He will indeed be blessed!”

27:34 When Esau heard ⁷⁰  his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. ⁷¹  He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!” 27:35 But Isaac ⁷²  replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away ⁷³  your blessing.” 27:36 Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! ⁷⁴  He has tripped me up ⁷⁵  two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

27:37 Isaac replied to Esau, “Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?” 27:38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” ⁷⁶  Then Esau wept loudly. ⁷⁷ 

27:39 So his father Isaac said to him,

“Indeed, ⁷⁸  your home will be

away from the richness ⁷⁹  of the earth,

and away from the dew of the sky above.

27:40 You will live by your sword

but you will serve your brother.

When you grow restless,

you will tear off his yoke

from your neck.” ⁸⁰ 

27:41 So Esau hated ⁸¹  Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. ⁸²  Esau said privately, ⁸³  “The time ⁸⁴  of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill ⁸⁵  my brother Jacob!”

27:42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, ⁸⁶  she quickly summoned ⁸⁷  her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you. ⁸⁸  27:43 Now then, my son, do what I say. ⁸⁹  Run away immediately ⁹⁰  to my brother Laban in Haran. 27:44 Live with him for a little while ⁹¹  until your brother’s rage subsides. 27:45 Stay there ⁹²  until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. ⁹³  Why should I lose both of you in one day?” ⁹⁴ 

27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed ⁹⁵  because of these daughters of Heth. ⁹⁶  If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!” ⁹⁷ 

28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman! ⁹⁸  28:2 Leave immediately ⁹⁹  for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 28:3 May the sovereign God ¹⁰⁰  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! ¹⁰¹  Then you will become ¹⁰²  a large nation. ¹⁰³  28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham ¹⁰⁴  so that you may possess the land ¹⁰⁵  God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.” ¹⁰⁶  28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. ¹⁰⁷  As he blessed him, ¹⁰⁸  Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” ¹⁰⁹  28:7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram. 28:8 Then Esau realized ¹¹⁰  that the Canaanite women ¹¹¹  were displeasing to ¹¹²  his father Isaac. 28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married ¹¹³  Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.