Genesis 27

Rebekah's Scheme Genesis 27:5–10

⁵Verse 5. Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. ⁶Verse 6. Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, ⁷Verse 7. ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’ ⁸Verse 8. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. ⁹Verse 9. Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

¹⁰Verse 10. You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

Jacob's Hesitation and Deception Genesis 27:11–17

¹¹Verse 11. Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. ¹²Verse 12. What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.” ¹³Verse 13. His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.” ¹⁴Verse 14. He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. ¹⁵Verse 15. Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

¹⁶Verse 16. She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. ¹⁷Verse 17. She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Jacob Receives the Blessing Genesis 27:18–29

¹⁸Verse 18. He came to his father, and said, “My father?”He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”¹⁹Verse 19. Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”²⁰Verse 20. Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”²¹Verse 21. Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”²²Verse 22. Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”²³Verse 23. He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.²⁴Verse 24. He said, “Are you really my son Esau?”He said, “I am.”²⁵Verse 25. He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.²⁶Verse 26. His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”²⁷Verse 27. He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,“Behold, the smell of my sonis as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.²⁸Verse 28. God give you of the dew of the sky,of the fatness of the earth,and plenty of grain and new wine.²⁹Verse 29. Let peoples serve you,and nations bow down to you.Be lord over your brothers.Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.Cursed be everyone who curses you.Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

Esau Returns and Discovers Deceit Genesis 27:30–40

³⁰Verse 30. As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. ³¹Verse 31. He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.” ³²Verse 32. Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” ³³Verse 33. Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

³⁴Verse 34. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.” ³⁵Verse 35. He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.” ³⁶Verse 36. He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?” ³⁷Verse 37. Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

³⁸Verse 38. Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. ³⁹Verse 39. Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above. ⁴⁰Verse 40. By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

Esau's Anger and Jacob's Flight Genesis 27:41–46

⁴¹Verse 41. Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.” ⁴²Verse 42. The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. ⁴³Verse 43. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. ⁴⁴Verse 44. Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away; ⁴⁵Verse 45. until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

⁴⁶Verse 46. Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”