Genesis 27 — FBV
27Verse 1Isaac was old and going blind. He called for Esau, his oldest son, and said, “My son.” “I'm here,” Esau replied.Verse 2“I'm old now,” said Isaac, “I may die soon, who knows?Verse 3So please take your bow and arrows and go hunting in the countryside for some meat for me.Verse 4Make me that tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so I can bless you before I die.”Verse 5Rebekah heard what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau left to go hunting in the countryside for wild game,Verse 6Rebekah told her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father tell your brother,Verse 7‘Get me some wild game and make me some tasty food so I can eat it and then bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’Verse 8Now then, my son, listen to me and do exactly what I tell you.Verse 9Go to the flock and bring me two nice young goats. I'll cook them and make the tasty food your father loves.Verse 10Then you take it to your father to eat, so he can bless you in the presence of the Lord before he dies.”Verse 11“But listen,” Jacob replied to his mother Rebekah, “my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a smooth man.Verse 12Maybe my father will notice when he touches me. Then it will look like I'm deceiving him and I'll bring a curse down on myself instead of a blessing.”Verse 13“Let the curse fall on me, my son,” his mother replied. “Just do what I tell you. Go and get the young goats for me.”Verse 14So Jacob went and got them and took them to his mother, and she made some tasty food, the way his father loved.Verse 15Then Rebekah went and got her older son Esau's best clothes that she had at home and put them on Jacob her younger son.Verse 16She put the goatskins on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.Verse 17Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she'd made.Verse 18He went in to see his father, and called out, “My father, I'm here.” “Which son are you?” Isaac asked.Verse 19“It's me Esau, your firstborn son,” Jacob told his father. “I did what you told me. So please sit up and eat some of my wild game meat so you can bless me.”Verse 20“How did you find an animal so fast, my son?” Isaac asked. “Because the Lord your God sent it my way,” Jacob replied.Verse 21“Come over here so I can touch you, my son,” Isaac told Jacob, “so I can tell if you're really my son Esau or not.”Verse 22Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “It's Jacob's voice but Esau's hands.”Verse 23Isaac didn't realize it was really Jacob because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's, so Isaac got ready to bless him.Verse 24“It's really you, my son Esau?” he asked again. “Yes, it's me,” Jacob replied.Verse 25Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your wild game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought some for him to eat, as well as some wine for him to drink.Verse 26Afterwards he said to Isaac, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”Verse 27So Jacob went over and kissed him, and Isaac could smell the clothes Jacob was wearing. So he went ahead with the blessing, saying to himself, “See—the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.”Verse 28“May God use the dew of heaven and fertile land to give you rich harvests of grain and new wine!Verse 29May the people of different nations serve you and bow down to you. May you rule over your relatives, and may they bow down to you. May everyone who curses you be cursed, and may everyone who blesses you be blessed.”Verse 30After Isaac finished blessing Jacob—in fact Jacob had just left his father—Esau returned from his hunting trip.Verse 31He had also made some tasty food, and took it to his father. Esau said to Isaac, “Sit up, my father, and eat some of my wild game so you can bless me.”Verse 32“Who are you?” Isaac asked him. “I'm your son, your firstborn son, Esau,” he replied.Verse 33Isaac started to shake all over and asked, “So who was it who went hunting game and then brought it to me? I ate it all before you came back and I blessed him. His blessing will remain.”Verse 34When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out in great anger and bitterness, and pleaded with his father, “Please bless me too, my father!”Verse 35But Isaac replied, “Your brother came and deceived me—he stole your blessing!”Verse 36“Isn't he well named—Jacob the deceiver!”+said Esau. “He's deceived me twice. First he took my birthright, and now he's stolen my blessing! Haven't you kept a blessing for me?”Verse 37Isaac replied to Esau. “I have made him ruler over you, and have said that all his relatives will be his servants. I have declared that he will be well supplied with grain and new wine. So what is left that I can do for you, my son?”Verse 38“Do you only have one blessing, my father?” Esau asked. “Please bless me too!” Then Esau began to cry very loudly.Verse 39Then his father Isaac declared, “Listen! You will live far away from fertile land, far from the dew of heaven that falls from above.Verse 40You will make a living by using your sword, and you will be your brother's servant. But when you rebel, you will throw off his yoke from your neck.”Verse 41From then on Esau hated Jacob because of his father's blessing. Esau said to himself, “Soon the time will come when I'll mourn my father's death. Then I'll kill my brother Jacob!”Verse 42However, Rebekah found out what Esau was saying, so she sent for Jacob. “Look,” she told him, “your brother Esau is making himself feel better by making plans to kill you.Verse 43So, my son, listen carefully to what I tell you. Leave immediately and go to my brother Laban in Haran.Verse 44Stay with him for a while until your brother's anger cools down.Verse 45Once he's cooled down and forgets what you did to him, I'll send for you to come back. Why should I lose both of you in a single day?”Verse 46Then Rebekah went and told Isaac, “I'm so sick of these Hittite women—they're ruining my life! If Jacob also marries a Hittite woman like them, one of the local people, I'd rather die!”