Genesis 27 — WBMS
27Verse 1Forsooth Isaac waxed eld [or old], and his eyes dimmed, and he might not see. And he called Esau, his more or older son, and said to him, My son! Which answered, I am present.Verse 2To whom the father said, Thou seest that I have waxed eld, and I know not the day of my death+.Verse 3Take thine arms, an arrow case, and a bow, and go out; and when thou hast taken anything by hunting,Verse 4make me a stew thereof, as thou knowest that I will or desire, and bring it to me that I eat, that my soul bless thee before that I die.Verse 5And when Rebecca had heard this thing, and he had gone forth into the field that he fulfill the behest of his father,Verse 6she said to her son Jacob, I heard thy father speaking with Esau, thy brother, and saying to him,Verse 7Bring thou to me of thine hunting, and make thou meats, that I eat, and that I bless thee before the Lord before that I die.Verse 8Now therefore, my son, assent to my counsels,Verse 9and go to the flock, and bring to me twain [or two]of the best kids, that I make meats of those to thy father, which he shall eat gladly;Verse 10and that when thou hast brought in those meats, and he hath eaten, he bless thee before that he die.Verse 11To whom Jacob answered, Thou knowest that Esau my brother is an hairy man, and I am smooth;Verse 12if my father shall touch or draw me to him, and feel me, I dread lest he guess that I would scorn him, and he bring in cursing on me for blessing.Verse 13To whom his mother said, My son, this cursing be in me; only hear thou my voice, and go, and bring that that I said.Verse 14He went, and brought it, and gave it to his mother. She made ready meats, as she knew that his father would have,Verse 15and she clothed Jacob in [the] full good clothes of Esau, which she had at home with herself.Verse 16And she wrapped his hands about with little skins of goat kids, and covered the nakedness of his neck;Verse 17and she gave to him the stew, and betook him [the] loaves, which she had baked.Verse 18And when these were brought in, he said, My father! And he answered, I am here; who art thou, my son?Verse 19And Jacob said, I am Esau, thy first begotten son. I have done to thee as thou commandedest to me; rise thou up, and sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul bless me.Verse 20Again Isaac said to his son, My son, how mightest thou find this venison so soon? Which answered, It was God’s will, that this thing that I would, should come soon to me.Verse 21And Isaac said, My son, come thou hither, that I touch thee, and that I prove whether thou be my son Esau, or nay.Verse 22Jacob nighed to his father; and when Isaac had feeled him, he said, Soothly the voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands be the hands of Esau.Verse 23And Isaac knew not Jacob, for the hairy hands showed the likeness of the elder son. Therefore Isaac blessed Jacob,Verse 24and said again, Art thou my son Esau? Jacob answered, I am.Verse 25And Isaac said, My son, bring thou to me meats of thine hunting, that my soul bless thee. And when Isaac had eaten these meats brought, Jacob brought also wine to Isaac, and when this was drunken,Verse 26Isaac said to him, My son, come thou hither, and give to me a kiss.Verse 27Jacob nighed, and kissed him; and anon as Isaac feeled the odour of his clothes, he blessed him, and said, Lo! the odour of my son as the odour of a plenteous field which the Lord hath blessed.Verse 28God give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of [the] earth, abundance [or plenty] of wheat, and of wine, and of oil;Verse 29and peoples serve thee, and lineages worship thee; be thou lord of thy brethren, and the sons of thy mother be bowed before thee; be he cursed that curseth thee, and he that blesseth thee, be he [full-]filled with blessings.Verse 30Scarcely Isaac had filled the word, and when Jacob was gone out, Esau came,Verse 31and brought in meats sodden of the hunting to the father, and said, My father, rise thou, and eat of the hunting of thy son, that thy soul bless me.Verse 32And Isaac said, Who art thou? Which answered, I am Esau, thy first begotten son.Verse 33Isaac dreaded with a great aston-ishing; and he wondered more than it may be believed, and said, Who therefore is he which a while ago brought to me venison taken, and I ate of all things before that thou camest; and I blessed him? and he shall be blessed.Verse 34When the words of the father were heard, Esau roared with a great cry, and was astonied, and said, My father, bless thou also me.Verse 35Which said, Thy brother came prudently [or beguilingly], and took thy blessing.Verse 36And Esau added, Justly his name is called Jacob, for lo! he [hath] supplanted me another time; before he took away my first begotten things, and now the second time, he [hath] ravished privily my blessing. And again he said to the father, Whether thou hast not reserved a blessing also to me?Verse 37Isaac answered, I have made him thy lord, and I have made subject all his brethren to his servage; I have stablished him in wheat, and wine, and oil; and so, my son, what shall I do to thee after these things?Verse 38To whom Esau said, Father, whether thou hast only one blessing? I beseech thee, that also thou bless me. And when Esau wept with great yelling,Verse 39Isaac was stirred, and said to him, Thy blessing shall not be in the fatness of [the] earth, and in the dew of heaven from above;Verse 40thou shalt live by sword, and thou shalt serve thy brother, and time shall come when thou shalt shake away, and unbind his yoke from [off] thy nolls.Verse 41Therefore Esau hated evermore Jacob for the blessing by which the father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning of my father shall come, and I shall slay Jacob, my brother.Verse 42These things were told to Rebecca, and she sent, and called her son Jacob, and said to him, Lo! Esau, thy brother, menaceth [or threateneth] to slay thee;Verse 43now therefore, my son, hear thou my voice, and rise thou up, and flee to Laban, my brother, into Haran;Verse 44and thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the strong vengeance of thy brother rest, and his indignation cease,Verse 45and till he forget those things which thou hast done against him. Afterward I shall send, and I shall bring thee from thence hither. Why shall I be made sonless of ever either son in one day?Verse 46And Rebecca said to Isaac, It annoyeth or vexeth me of my life for the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the kindred of this land, I will not live.