³⁴When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, “Bless me as well, my father!” ³⁵And he said, “Your brother came in deceit and took your blessing.” ³⁶Then he said, “Isn’t that why he is named Jacob?ⁿ He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” ³⁷Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?” ³⁸And Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. ³⁹Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,

“Your home shall be from^o the fatness of the land,

and from the dew of heaven above.

⁴⁰But by your sword you shall live,

and you shall serve your brother.

But it shall be that when free yourself

you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.

⁴¹Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart,^p “The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother.”

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Footnotes

nLiterally “that his name is called Jacob?”
oOr “away from”
pThat is, “to himself”