Genesis 27:21–34

²¹Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I ^pmay feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.” ²²So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” ²³And he did not recognize him, because ^qhis hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.

²⁴Then he said, “Are you really my son Esau?”

He said, “I am.”

²⁵He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, so ^rthat my soul may bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. ²⁶Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near now and kiss me, my son.” ²⁷And he came near and ^skissed him; and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said:

“Surely, ^tthe smell of my son

Is like the smell of a field

Which the Lord has blessed.

²⁸Therefore may ^uGod give you

Of ^vthe dew of heaven,

Of ^wthe fatness of the earth,

And ^xplenty of grain and wine.

^29yLet peoples serve you,

And nations bow down to you.

Be master over your brethren,

And ^zlet your mother’s sons bow down to you.

^aCursed be everyone who curses you,

And blessed be those who bless you!”

Esau’s Lost Hope

³⁰Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. ³¹He also had made ⁴savory food, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise and ^beat of his son’s game, that your soul may bless me.”

³²And his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?”

So he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

³³Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—^cand indeed he shall be blessed.”

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