Chapter 27
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And it was when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim from seeing, and he called Esau his firstborn son and said to him, "My son," and he said to him, "Here I am."
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He said, "Look, I have grown old. I do not know the day of my death."
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And now please take your utensils—your quiver and your bow—and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
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And make delicacies for me as I have loved, and bring them to me, and I will eat so that my nephesh may bless you before I die.
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And Rebekah heard the words of Isaac to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game to bring.
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And Rebekah said to Jacob her son, "Behold, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,"
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"Bring me game and make me delicacies, and I will eat and bless you before the LORD before my death."
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And now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you.
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Go now to the flock and take for me from there two good kids of goats, and I will make them delicacies for your father, just as he loves.
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You shall bring it to your father, and he shall eat it so that he may bless you before his death.
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And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man."
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Perhaps my father will touch me, and I will be in his eyes as one deceiving, and I will bring a curse upon me, not a divine blessing.
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And his mother said to him, "Upon me be your curse, my son; only obey my voice and go, take for me."
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He went and took them and came to his mother, and his mother made dishes just as his father loved.
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And Rebekah took the desirable garments of Esau her firstborn son, which were in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son.
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She clothed him with the skins of the goat kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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She put the savory dishes and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son.
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He came to his father and said, "Father." He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
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Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please rise, sit, and eat some of my game, so that your vital life force may bless me."
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And Isaac said to his son, "What is this? You hurried to find it, my son." And he said, "Because the LORD your God caused it to happen before me."
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And Isaac said to Jacob, "Come here now, and I will feel you, my son—are you my son Esau or not?"
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And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father, and he touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, and the hands are the hands of Esau."
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And he did not recognize him because his hands were like the hands of Esau his brother, hairy, and he blessed him.
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He said, "Are you my son Esau?" He said, "I am."
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He said, "Serve it to me, and I will eat some of my son's game so that my soul may bless you." Jacob approached him and he ate. He brought wine to him and he drank.
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Isaac his father said to him, "Please come near and give me a drink, my son."
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He drew near and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed."
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May God give you dew from the heavens and fatness of the land, and much grain and new wine.
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Peoples shall serve you, and nations shall bow down to you. Be lord over your brother, and the sons of your mother shall bow down to you. Cursed be one who curses you, and blessed be one who blesses you.
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And it was as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came from his hunting.
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He also made dishes and came to his father and said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat from his son's hunt so that your nephesh may bless me."
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Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
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And Isaac trembled with a great trembling, exceedingly. And he said, "Who then is he who hunted the hunt and brought it to me? And I ate from all of it before you came, and I blessed him. Also, he will be blessed."
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When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out with a great and bitter cry, exceedingly, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me, my father."
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And he said, "Your brother came in by deceit and took your blessing."
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He said, "Is it because he called his name Jacob that he has Jacobed me these two times? He took my firstborn, and behold, now he has taken my blessing." He said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
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Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Look, I have set him as master over you, and I have given all his brothers to him as servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So now, what shall I do, my son?"
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And Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing left, my father? Bless me too, my father." And Esau lifted his voice and wept.
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Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Look, your dwelling will be from the fatness of the land, and from the dew of heaven from above."
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You shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother. But when you roam free, you will break his yoke from off your neck.