Genesis 27:1–13

Isaac Blesses Jacob

27 Now it came to pass, when Isaac was aold and bhis eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered him, “Here I am.”

2 Then he said, “Behold now, I am old. I cdo not know the day of my death. 3 dNow therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. 4 And make me 1savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul emay bless you before I die.”

5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it. 6 So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Indeed I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7 ‘Bring me game and make 2savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before my death.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, fobey my voice according to what I command you. 9 Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make gsavory food from them for your father, such as he loves. 10 Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he hmay bless you before his death.”

11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, iEsau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man. 12 Perhaps my father will jfeel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring ka curse on myself and not a blessing.”

13 But his mother said to him, l“Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.”