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Chapter 27 Jacob Gets Isaac's Blessing 1When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”“Here I am,” he answered. 5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,7‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the LORD before I die.’8Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:9Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.10Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.” 11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.12What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.” 13His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.” 14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.16She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.17Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made. 18He went to his father and said, “My father.” 19Jacob 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 so that you may give me your blessing.” 20Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” 21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.” 22Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”23He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.24“Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. 25Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” 27So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, 28May God give you of heaven's dew 29May nations serve you 30After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.31He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.” 32His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” 33Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!” 34When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!” 35But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.” 36Esau said, “Isn't he rightly named JacobJacob means he grasps the heel (figuratively, he deceives).? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?” 37Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?” 38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud. 39His father Isaac answered him, 40You will live by the sword
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