22. So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
23. He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
24. Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau? ”And he replied, “I am.”
25. Then he said, “Serve me, and let me eat some of my son’s game so that I can bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.
26. Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come closer and kiss me, my son.”
27. So he came closer and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothes, he blessed him and said:Ah, the smell of my sonis like the smell of a fieldthat the Lord has blessed.
28. May God give to you —from the dew of the sky and from the richness of the land —an abundance of grain and new wine.
29. May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you.Be master over your brothers;may your mother’s sons bow down to you.Those who curse you will be cursed,and those who bless you will be blessed.
30. As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt.
31. He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
32. But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you? ”He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”
33. Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed! ”
34. When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father! ”
35. But he replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36. So he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me? ”
37. But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son? ”
38. Esau said to his father, “Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! ” And Esau wept loudly.
39. Then his father Isaac answered him:Look, your dwelling place will beaway from the richness of the land,away from the dew of the sky above.
40. You will live by your sword,and you will serve your brother.But when you rebel, you will break his yoke from your neck.
41. Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
42. When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.