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Genesis 27:1-45 GNB Isaac was now old and had become blind. He sent for his older son Esau and said to him, "Son!" "Yes," he answered. (2) Isaac said, "You see that I am old and may die soon. (3) Take your bow and arrows, go out into the country, and kill an animal for me. (4) Cook me some of that tasty food that I like, and bring it to me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my final blessing before I die." (5) While Isaac was talking to Esau, Rebecca was listening. So when Esau went out to hunt, (6) she said to Jacob, "I have just heard your father say to Esau, (7) 'Bring me an animal and cook it for me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.' (8) Now, son," Rebecca continued, "listen to me and do what I say. (9) Go to the flock and pick out two fat young goats, so that I can cook them and make some of that food your father likes so much. (10) You can take it to him to eat, and he will give you his blessing before he dies." (11) But Jacob said to his mother, "You know that Esau is a hairy man, but I have smooth skin. (12) Perhaps my father will touch me and find out that I am deceiving him; in this way, I will bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing." (13) His mother answered, "Let any curse against you fall on me, my son; just do as I say, and go and get the goats for me." (14) So he went to get them and brought them to her, and she cooked the kind of food that his father liked. (15) Then she took Esau's best clothes, which she kept in the house, and put them on Jacob. (16) She put the skins of the goats on his arms and on the hairless part of his neck. (17) She handed him the tasty food, along with the bread she had baked. (18) Then Jacob went to his father and said, "Father!" "Yes," he answered. "Which of my sons are you?" (19) Jacob answered, "I am your older son Esau; I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessing." (20) Isaac said, "How did you find it so quickly, son?" Jacob answered, "The LORD your God helped me find it." (21) Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come closer so that I can touch you. Are you really Esau?" (22) Jacob moved closer to his father, who felt him and said, "Your voice sounds like Jacob's voice, but your arms feel like Esau's arms." (23) He did not recognize Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau's. He was about to give him his blessing, (24) but asked again, "Are you really Esau?" "I am," he answered. (25) Isaac said, "Bring me some of the meat. After I eat it, I will give you my blessing." Jacob brought it to him, and he also brought him some wine to drink. (26) Then his father said to him, "Come closer and kiss me, son." (27) As he came up to kiss him, Isaac smelled his clothes---so he gave him his blessing. He said, "The pleasant smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed. (28) May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile! May he give you plenty of grain and wine! (29) May nations be your servants, and may peoples bow down before you. May you rule over all your relatives, and may your mother's descendants bow down before you. May those who curse you be cursed, and may those who bless you be blessed." (30) Isaac finished giving his blessing, and as soon as Jacob left, his brother Esau came in from hunting. (31) He also cooked some tasty food and took it to his father. He said, "Please, father, sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessing." (32) "Who are you?" Isaac asked. "Your older son Esau," he answered. (33) Isaac began to tremble and shake all over, and he asked, "Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came. I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever." (34) When Esau heard this, he cried out loudly and bitterly and said, "Give me your blessing also, father!" (35) Isaac answered, "Your brother came and deceived me. He has taken away your blessing." (36) Esau said, "This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the first-born son, and now he has taken away my blessing. Haven't you saved a blessing for me?" (37) Isaac answered, "I have already made him master over you, and I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him grain and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!" (38) Esau continued to plead with his father: "Do you have only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!" He began to cry. (39) Then Isaac said to him, "No dew from heaven for you, No fertile fields for you. (40) You will live by your sword, But be your brother's slave. Yet when you rebel, You will break away from his control." (41) Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, "The time to mourn my father's death is near; then I will kill Jacob." (42) But when Rebecca heard about Esau's plan, she sent for Jacob and said, "Listen, your brother Esau is planning to get even with you and kill you. (43) Now, son, do what I say. Go at once to my brother Laban in Haran, (44) and stay with him for a while, until your brother's anger cools down (45) and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send someone to bring you back. Why should I lose both of my sons on the same day?"
Genesis 27:1-46 LITV And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Behold me. (2) And he said, Behold! Now, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. (3) And now please lift up your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go to the field and hunt game for me. (4) And make for me delicious things, such as I love, and bring to me, and I will eat; so that my soul may bless you before I die. (5) And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. And Esau went to the field to hunt game, to bring it in. (6) And Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau saying, (7) Bring game to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before Jehovah before my death. (8) And now my son hear my voice, that which I command you. (9) Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them into delicious things for your father which he loves; (10) and you shall bring it to your father and let him eat, so that he may bless you before his death. (11) And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I a smooth man. (12) Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall be like a deceiver in his eyes, and I shall bring a curse on me, and not blessing. (13) And his mother said to him, Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice and go, take for me. (14) And he went and took and came to his mother. And his mother made delicious things, such as his father loved. (15) And Rebekah took the clothing of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house. And she dressed her younger son Jacob; (16) and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smoothness of his neck. (17) And she put the delicious things and the bread which she had made in the hand of her son Jacob. (18) And he went in to his father and said, My father. And he said, Behold me. Who are you, my son? (19) And Jacob said to his father, I am your first-born, Esau. I have done as you said to me. Rise up now, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul may bless me. (20) And Isaac said to his son, How then have you quickly found it, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God made it come to me. (21) And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near now and let me feel you, whether then you are my son Esau, or not. (22) And Jacob came near to his father Isaac. And he felt him, and he said, The voice is the voice of Jacob and the hands are Esau's hands. (23) And he did not know him, because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him. (24) And he said, Are you then my son Esau? And he said, I am. (25) And he said, Bring to me and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine. (26) And his father Isaac said to him, Now come and kiss me, my son. (27) And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothes. And he blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah has blessed. (28) And may God give you of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and much grain and wine. (29) May the nations serve you and peoples bow to you; be a ruler to your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow to you, and cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you. (30) And it happened that when Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, then it came about that Jacob had hardly gone out from the face of his father Isaac, and his brother Esau came in from his hunting. (31) And he also made delicious things and came to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise and eat from the game of his son, so that your soul may bless me. (32) And his father Isaac said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your first-born, Esau. (33) And Isaac was terrified with a very great anxiety. And he said, Who then was the one who hunted game and came to me; and I ate from it all before you came; and I blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed. (34) When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out a great and very bitter cry. And he said to his father, Bless me, me also, my father. (35) And he said, Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing. (36) And he said, It is because his name is called Jacob, and this twice he took me by the heel; he took my birthright and, behold, now he has taken my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me? (37) And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have set him over you as a ruler, and I have given him all his brothers for servants; I have girded him with grain and wine. And what then can I do for you, my son? (38) And Esau said to his father, Is one blessing left to you, my father? Bless me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. (39) And his father Isaac answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be from the fat of the earth and from the dew of the heavens above; (40) and you shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother; and when it shall be that you are restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck. (41) And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob. (42) And the words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, Behold! Your brother Esau is going to ease himself on you, to kill you. (43) And now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise, flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran. (44) And stay with him some days until your brother's fury turns away, (45) until your brother's anger turns back from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. And I will send and take you from there. Why should I also be bereaved of two of you in one day? (46) And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life from the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these from the daughters of the land, what is my life to me?
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