1When Isaac had grown old and his eyes had become dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." Esau answered, "Here I am."2Isaac said, "See now, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.3Now then, take your vessels, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.4Prepare for me the savory food that I love, bring it to me, and let me eat, so that I may bless you before I die."5Rebekah heard what Isaac said to his son Esau. So Esau went to the field to hunt game and bring it back.6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau. He said,7Bring me wild game and prepare delicacies for me, and I will eat, so that I may bless you before the LORD before my death.8Now therefore, my son, listen to me and do what I tell you."9"Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he loves."10"Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But 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 one mocking, and I will bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.13His mother said to him, "Let your curse be upon me, my son; only hear my voice and go, take them for me."14So he went, took them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food such as his father loved.15Then Rebekah took the garments of Esau her older son, the desirable ones that were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.16And she put the skins of the young goats upon his hands and upon the smooth part of his neck.17And she gave the savory food and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of Jacob her son.18He went in to his father and said, "My father." Isaac answered, "Here I am; who 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 of my game, so that you may bless me."20Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the LORD your God granted me success."21Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."22Jacob drew near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."23He did not recognize him, because his hands were like the hands of Esau his brother, hairy, and he blessed him.24Isaac said, "Are you really my son Esau?" Jacob answered, "I am."25Then he said, "Bring it near to me, and let me eat of my son's wild game, so that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.26Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."27So Jacob came near and kissed him. Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him, saying, "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed!"28May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.29Let peoples serve you, and let nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and let the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.30As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.31He also prepared savory food and brought it to his father. He said to him, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, so that you may bless me."32His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."33Then Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of all of it before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."34When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"35Isaac said, "Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing."36He said, "Is it because his name was called Jacob that he has supplanted me these two times? He took my birthright, and behold, now he has taken my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"37Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"38Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.39Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Behold, your dwelling shall be from the fat of the earth and from the dew of heaven above."40You shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall be that when you roam you shall tear his yoke from your neck.