Genesis 27:34–41

³⁴As Esau heard the words of his father, ^ahe cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, O my father!”

³⁵And he said, “^aYour brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.”

³⁶Then he said, “¹Is he not rightly named ^aJacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

³⁷But Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him ^ayour master, and all his fellow brothers I have given to him ¹as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”

³⁸And Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and ^awept.

³⁹Then ^aIsaac his father answered and said to him,

“Behold, ^1baway from the fatness of the earth shall be your habitation,

And ²away from the dew of heaven from above.

⁴⁰“By your sword you shall live,

And your brother ^ayou shall serve;

But it shall be ^bwhen you become restless,

That you will ¹break his yoke from your neck.”

⁴¹So Esau ^abore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “^bThe days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”