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!”
35. When Isaac said, “Your brother came here by a ruse and carried off your blessing,”
36. Esau exclaimed, “He is well named Jacob, is he not! He has supplanted me twice! First he took away my right as firstborn, and now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not saved a blessing for me?”
37. Isaac replied to Esau: “I have already appointed him your master, and I have assigned to him all his kindred as his servants; besides, I have sustained him with grain and wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”
38. But Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” and Esau wept aloud.