1 And it came to pass that Isaac had aged, and his eyes were too dim for seeing, and he called for his older son Esau and said to him, “My son." And he said to him, “Here I am.” 2 And he said, “Now look, I have become aged, I have not known the day of my death. 3 And now, please take up your instruments, your quiver, and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt provision for me, 4 and make tasteful things for me, such as I have loved, and bring them to me, and I eat, so that my soul blesses you before I die.” 5 And Rebekah was listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. And Esau goes to the field to hunt game—to bring in. 6 And Rebekah had spoken to her son Jacob, saying, “Look, I have heard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying, 7 Bring game for me, and make tasteful things for me, and I eat, and bless you before YHWH before my death. 8 And now, my son, listen to my voice, to that which I am commanding you: 9 Now go to the flock, and take for me two good kids of the goats from there, and I will make them tasteful things for your father, such as he has loved. 10 And you have taken them to your father, and he [has eaten|?will eat, so that his soul blesses you before his death.” 11 And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, 12 it may be my father feels me, and I have been in his eyes as a deceiver, and have brought on me disapproval, and not a blessing.” 13 And his mother said to him, “On me your disapproval, my son. Only listen to my voice, and go, take for me.” 14 And he goes, and took, and brought to his mother, and his mother made tasteful things, such as his father had loved. 15 And Rebekah took the desirable garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And she had put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck, 17 and she gave the tasteful things, and the bread which she had made, into the hand of her son Jacob. 18 And he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you have spoken to me. Please rise, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul blesses me.” 20 And Isaac said to his son, “What is this you have hurried to find, my son?” And he said, “That which your God YHWH has caused to come before me.” 21 And Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, and I will feel you, my son, whether you are he, my son Esau, or not.” 22 And Jacob came near to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, and the hands hands of Esau.” 23 And he had not discerned him, for his hands had been hairy, as the hands of his brother Esau, and he blessed him, 24 and said, “You are he—my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.” 25 And he said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, so that my soul blesses you.” And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank. 26 And his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.” 27 And he came near, and kissed him, and he smelt the fragrance of his garments, and blessed him, and said, “See, the fragrance of my son is as the fragrance of a field which YHWH has blessed. 28 And God gives to you of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and wine. 29 Peoples serve you, and nations bow themselves to you, be mighty over your brothers, and the sons of your mother bow themselves to you. Those who curse you are cursed, and those who bless you are blessed.” 30 And it came to pass, as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob was only just going out from the presence of his father Isaac, that his brother Esau had come in from his hunting. 31 And he also made tasteful things, and brought them to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s game, so that your soul blesses me.” 32 And his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” 33 And Isaac trembled a very great trembling and said, “Who, now, is he who has provided game, and brought to me, and I ate of all before you came in, and I blessed him? Indeed, he is blessed.” 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, then he cried a very great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, O my father.” 35 And he said, “Your brother has come with subtlety, and took your blessing.” 36 And he said, “Is it because he whose name is called Jacob took me by the heel these two times? He has taken my birthright. And look, now he has taken my blessing.” He also said, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?” 37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Look, a mighty one have I set him over you, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants, and with grain and wine have I sustained him. And for you now, what will I do, my son?” 38 And Esau said to his father, “One blessing have you my father? Bless me, me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 39 And his father Isaac answered and said to him, “Look, of the fatness of the earth is your settlement, and of the dew of the heavens from above. 40 And by your sword you live, and your brother serves you. And it will come to pass, when you rule, that you have broken his yoke from off your neck.” 41 And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father draw near, and I will slay my brother Jacob.” 42 And the words of Esau her older son were declared to Rebekah, and she sent and called for Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Look, your brother Esau is comforting himself in regard to you—to slay you. 43 And now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise, flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran, 44 and you will stay with him some days, until your brother’s fury turns back, 45 until your brother’s anger turns back from you, and he has forgotten that which you have done to him, and I have sent and taken you from there. Why am I bereaved even of you both the same day?” 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these—from the daughters of the land—why do I live?”