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So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;
And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
And Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"
"Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
"And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die."
'Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'
"Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves.
"Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death."
"Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing."
But his mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."
Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done just as you told me; please arise, sit and eat 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 brought it to me."
He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul 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, "Come near now and kiss me, my son."
He also had made savory 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."
Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, "Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him - and indeed he shall be blessed."
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me - me also, O my father!"
And Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!" And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"