Genesis 27Book 1 of 66 · 46 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he answered him, "Here I am."
Then he said, "Behold now, I am old and I do not know when I may die.
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt some wild game for me.
And make me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.
Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it home.
So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Listen, I overheard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
Bring me game and prepare delicious food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.
Now therefore, my son, listen to me and obey my voice according to what I command you.
Go now to the flock and bring me from there two fine young goats, and I will make delicious food from them for your father, such as he loves.
Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before he dies.
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a man with smooth skin.
Perhaps my father will touch me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him, and I will bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.
But his mother said to him, "Let your curse fall on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared savory food, just the way his father loved.
Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Then she gave the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
So he came to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me; please sit up and eat some of my game, that your soul may bless me."
But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God granted me success."
Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may touch you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."
So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
And he did not recognize him, because his hands felt hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
Then he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he answered, "I am."
He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's game, that I may bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come near now and kiss me, my son."
So he came near and kissed him, and when Isaac smelled the smell of his garments he blessed him and said, "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed!"
Therefore may God give you of the dew of heaven, of the richness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and new wine.
Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you, be master over your brothers and let your mother's sons bow down to you, cursed be everyone who curses you and blessed be those who bless you.
Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had barely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother returned from his hunting.
He also had made delicious food and brought it to his father, and said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that your soul may bless me."
And his father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
Then Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him—and indeed he shall be blessed."
When 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!"
But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing."
Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has cheated me these two times—he took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!" Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Indeed I have made him your master, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants; with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"
And Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me—me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Behold, away from the richness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven from above.
By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you grow restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.
So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
And when the words of Esau her older son were reported to Rebekah, she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by plotting to kill you."
Now therefore, my son, listen carefully to my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.
And stay with him for a few days, until your brother's fury subsides.
Until your brother's anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him, then I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?
Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob marries a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"