Genesis 27:34–41

³⁴When 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!”^{* 35}But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” ³⁶Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob?^j For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”^{* 37}Isaac answered Esau, “I have already made him your lord, and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”^{* 38}Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.^*

³⁹Then his father Isaac answered him:

“See, away from the fatness of the earth shall your home be

and away from the dew of heaven on high.^*

⁴⁰By your sword you shall live,

and you shall serve your brother,

but when you break loose,^k

you shall break his yoke from your neck.”^*

Jacob Escapes Esau’s Fury

⁴¹Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”^*