Genesis 27:21–34

²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come close, that ^aI may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

²²So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

²³He did not recognize him, because his hands were ^ahairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.

²⁴And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

²⁵So he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that ^1aI may bless you.” And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.

²⁶Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come close and kiss me, my son.”

²⁷So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he ^ablessed him and said,

“See, ^bthe smell of my son

Is like the smell of a field ^cwhich the Lord has blessed;

²⁸Now may ^aGod give you of the dew of heaven,

And of the ^bfatness of the earth,

And an abundance of grain and new wine;

^29aMay peoples serve you,

And nations bow down to you;

^bBe master of your brothers,

^cAnd may your mother’s sons bow down to you.

^dCursed be those who curse you,

And blessed be those who bless you.”

The Stolen Blessing

³⁰Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

³¹Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “^aLet my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that ^1byou may bless me.”

³²Isaac his father said to him, “^aWho are you?” And he said, “I am your son, ^byour firstborn, Esau.”

³³Then Isaac ¹trembled violently, and said, “^aWho was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? ^bYes, and he shall be blessed.”

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