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.
39. His father Isaac said in response:“See, far from the fertile earthwill be your dwelling;far from the dew of the heavens above!