Genesis 27:21–34

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. ³¹He also prepared savory food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father sit up and eat of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”^{* 32}His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your firstborn son, Esau.”^{* 33}Then Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and blessed he shall be!”^{* 34}When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!”^*