Genesis 27:18–30

¹⁸So he went in to his father and said, “My father,” and he said, “Here I am; who are you, my son?” ¹⁹Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.”^{* 20}But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the Lord your God granted me success.” ²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”^{* 22}So Jacob went up to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” ²³He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands, so he blessed him.^{* 24}He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.” ²⁵Then he said, “Bring it to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it to him, and he ate, and he brought him wine, and he drank.^{* 26}Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” ²⁷So he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said,

“Ah, the smell of my son

is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.^*

²⁸May God give you of the dew of heaven

and of the fatness of the earth

and plenty of grain and wine.^*

²⁹Let peoples serve you

and nations bow down to you.

Be lord over your brothers,

and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.

Cursed be everyone who curses you,

and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”^*

Esau’s Lost Blessing

³⁰As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.