Genesis 27:34–41

³⁴When Esau heard this, he cried out loudly and bitterly and said, “Give me your blessing also, father!”

³⁵Isaac answered, “Your brother came and deceived me. He has taken away your blessing.”

^36*Esau said, “This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob.^j He took my rights as the firstborn son, and now he has taken away my blessing. Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

³⁷Isaac answered, “I have already made him master over you, and I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him corn and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, my son!”

^38*Esau continued to plead with his father: “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” He began to cry.

^39*Then Isaac said to him,

“No dew from heaven for you,

No fertile fields for you.

^40*You will live by your sword,

But be your brother’s slave.

Yet when you rebel,^k

You will break away from his control.”

⁴¹Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, “The time to mourn my father’s death is near; then I will kill Jacob.”