¹It happened that Isaac was old, and his eyes grew too dim to see. He called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." He said to him, "Here I am."

²He said, "Look now, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.

³And now, please take up your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt me some game.

⁴And make me delicacies, such as I love, and bring them to me, that I may eat, so that my being may bless you before I die."

⁵Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and bring it.

⁶Rebekah said to Jacob her son, saying, "Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

⁷'Bring me game and make me delicacies, and I will eat, and I will bless you before the face of Yahweh before my death.'

⁸And now, my son, listen to my voice in what I command you.

⁹Go, please, to the flock and take me from there two good young goats of the she-goats, and I will make them delicacies for your father, such as he loves.

¹⁰You will bring it to your father, and he will eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

¹¹Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

¹²Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be in his eyes like a mocker, and I will bring a curse on myself and not a blessing."

¹³His mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, fetch them for me."

¹⁴He went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made delicacies, such as his father loved.

¹⁵Rebekah took the clothes of Esau her older son, the desirable ones that were with her in the house, and clothed Jacob her young son in them.

¹⁶And with the skins of the young goats of the she-goats she clothed his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

¹⁷She put the delicacies and the food she had prepared into the hand of Jacob her son.

¹⁸He came to his father and said, "My father." He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

¹⁹Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you spoke to me. Rise, please, sit and eat some of my game, so that your being may bless me."

²⁰Isaac said to his son, "What is this, that you have hurried to find it, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God made it happen before my face."

²¹Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near, please, and let me feel you, my son, whether you are my son Esau or not."

²²Jacob drew near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

²³He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother, and he blessed him.

²⁴He said, "Are you my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

²⁵He said, "Bring it near to me, and let me eat some of my son's game, so that my being may bless you." He brought it near to him and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

²⁶His father Isaac said to him, "Come near, please, and kiss me, my son."

²⁷He came near and kissed him, and he smelled the odor of his garments and blessed him. He said, "See, the odor of my son is like the odor of a field that Yahweh has blessed.

²⁸May God give you from the dew of the skies and from the fatness of the land, and a multitude of grain and new wine.

²⁹Peoples will serve you, and communities will bow down to you; be lord to your brothers, and the children of your mother will bow down to you. Those who curse you are cursed, and those who bless you are blessed.

³⁰It happened, just as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and it came about: Jacob had only just gone out from the face of Isaac his father when Esau his brother came in from his hunt.

³¹He also made delicacies and brought them to his father, and he said to his father, "Let my father rise and eat from the game of his son, so that your being may bless me."

³²Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

³³Isaac shuddered with a great shuddering, exceedingly so, and said, "Who then is he that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of everything before you came, and I blessed him? He also will be blessed."

³⁴When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a cry, great and bitter exceedingly, and said to his father, "Bless me, me also, my father."

³⁵He said, "Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing."

³⁶He said, "Is that why his name was called Jacob? He has caught me by the heel these two times: he took my firstborn's right, and now look, he has taken my blessing." He said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

³⁷Isaac answered and said to Esau, "See, I have appointed him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as slaves, and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. And for you, what then can I do, my son?"

³⁸Esau said to his father, "Is there only one blessing for you, my father? Bless me, me also, my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

³⁹Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Look, away from the fatness of the land will be your dwelling, and away from the dew of the skies above.

⁴⁰By your sword you will live, and your brother you will serve; but it will be that as you roam, you will tear his yoke off from your neck."

⁴¹Esau bore a grudge against Jacob over the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father will draw near, and I will kill Jacob my brother."

⁴²The words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Look, Esau your brother is comforting himself over you by killing you.

⁴³And now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise; flee for yourself to Laban my brother at Haran.

⁴⁴And you will dwell with him a few days, until the anger of your brother returns,

⁴⁵until the anger of your brother turns back from you and he forgets what you did to him; then I will send and fetch you from there. Why should I also be bereaved of you two in one day?"

⁴⁶Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these, from the daughters of the land, why should I have life?"