Genesis 27:7   (Read all of Genesis 27)

'Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.'

Genesis 27:8   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:

Genesis 27:9   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

Genesis 27:10   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."

Genesis 27:15   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

Genesis 27:19   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."

Genesis 27:20   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The Lord your God gave me success," he replied.

Genesis 27:21   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not."

Genesis 27:24   (Read all of Genesis 27)

"Are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "I am," he replied.

Genesis 27:25   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Then he said, "My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing." Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.

Genesis 27:28   (Read all of Genesis 27)

May God give you heaven's dew and earth's richness- an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:29   (Read all of Genesis 27)

May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."

Genesis 27:31   (Read all of Genesis 27)

He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."

Genesis 27:32   (Read all of Genesis 27)

His father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau."

Genesis 27:33   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him-and indeed he will be blessed!"

Genesis 27:35   (Read all of Genesis 27)

But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."

Genesis 27:36   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Esau said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob ? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?"

Genesis 27:37   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Isaac answered Esau, "I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?"

Genesis 27:38   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.

Genesis 27:39   (Read all of Genesis 27)

His father Isaac answered him, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

Genesis 27:40   (Read all of Genesis 27)

You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck."

Genesis 27:42   (Read all of Genesis 27)

When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.

Genesis 27:44   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.

Genesis 27:45   (Read all of Genesis 27)

When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"