Genesis 27:30–40

³⁰Isaac finished blessing Jacob. Jacob had barely left when his brother Esau came in from hunting. ³¹He, too, prepared a good-tasting meal and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Please, Father, eat some of the meat I’ve hunted for you so that you will bless me.” 

³²“Who are you?” his father Isaac asked him. 

“I’m your firstborn son Esau,” he answered. 

³³Trembling violently all over, Isaac asked, “Who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it before you came in. I blessed him, and he will stay blessed.” 

³⁴When Esau heard these words from his father, he shouted out a very loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, Father!” 

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

³⁶Esau said, “Isn’t that why he’s named Jacob? He’s cheated me twice already: He took my rights as firstborn, and now he’s taken my blessing.” So he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?” 

³⁷Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him your master, and I have made all his brothers serve him. I’ve provided fresh grain and new wine for him. What is left for me to do for you, Son?” 

³⁸Esau asked, “Do you have only one blessing, Father? Bless me too, Father!” And Esau sobbed loudly. 

³⁹His father Isaac answered him, 

“The place where you live will lack the fertile fields of the earth 

and the dew from the sky above. 

⁴⁰You will use your sword to live, 

and you will serve your brother. 

But eventually you will gain your freedom 

and break his yoke^coff your neck.”