34. When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”
35. But Isaac replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36. Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
37. Isaac replied to Esau, “Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
38. Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.
39. So his father Isaac said to him,“Indeed, your home will beaway from the richness of the earth,and away from the dew of the sky above.
40. You will live by your swordbut you will serve your brother.When you grow restless,you will tear off his yokefrom your neck.”
41. So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, “The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
42. When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
43. Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.
44. Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.
45. Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
46. Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”