19. Jacob answered his father: “I am Esau, your firstborn. I did as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
20. But Isaac said to his son, “How did you get it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “The Lord, your God, directed me.”
21. Isaac then said to Jacob, “Come closer, my son, that I may feel you, to learn whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
22. So Jacob moved up closer to his father. When Isaac felt him, he said, “Although the voice is Jacob’s, the hands are Esau’s.”
23. (He failed to identify him because his hands were hairy, like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.)
24. Again Isaac said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And Jacob said, “I am.”
25. Then Isaac said, “Serve me, my son, and let me eat of the game so that I may bless you.” Jacob served it to him, and Isaac ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.
26. Finally his father Isaac said to him, “Come closer, my son, and kiss me.”
27. As Jacob went up to kiss him, Isaac smelled the fragrance of his clothes. With that, he blessed him, saying,“Ah, the fragrance of my sonis like the fragrance of a fieldthat the Lord has blessed!
28. May God give to youof the dew of the heavensAnd of the fertility of the earthabundance of grain and wine.
29. May peoples serve you,and nations bow down to you;Be master of your brothers,and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.Cursed be those who curse you,and blessed be those who bless you.”
30. Jacob had scarcely left his father after Isaac had finished blessing him, when his brother Esau came back from his hunt.
31. Then he too prepared a dish, and bringing it to his father, he said, “Let my father sit up and eat some of his son’s game, that you may then give me your blessing.”
32. His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn son, Esau.”
33. Isaac trembled greatly. “Who was it, then,” he asked, “that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all just before you came, and I blessed him. Now he is blessed!”
34. As he heard his father’s words, Esau burst into loud, bitter sobbing and said, “Father, bless me too!”