Jacob Steals Esau's Blessing
26 And in the seventh year of this week Isaac called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: "My son, I am old, and behold my eyes are dull of seeing, and I do not know the day of my death. 2And now take thy hunting weapon and thy bow and thy quiver, and go to the field and hunt and catch something for me, my son, and prepare me a meal such as my soul loves, and bring it to me, so that I may eat and my soul bless thee before I die."
3But Rebecca heard Isaac speaking to Esau. 4And Esau went early to the field to hunt and catch something and bring it to his father. 5And Rebecca called Jacob, her son, and said to him: "Behold, I have heard thy father Isaac speaking with thy brother Esau, saying, 'Hunt me something and prepare a meal and bring it in to me, and I will bless thee before the Lord before I die.' 6But now hear, my son, my words which I command thee:. Go to thy flocks and bring me two good young kids, and I will make a meal out of them such as he loves, and thou shalt bring it in to thy father and he shall eat, that he may bless thee before the Lord before he dies, and thou become blessed."
7And Jacob said to his mother Rebecca: "O mother, I will not hold back any thing that my father may eat and is pleasing to him; only I fear, my mother, that he will know my voice and will desire to touch me; and thou knowest that I am smooth, but my brother Esau is rough, and I may be before his eyes like an evil-doer, and I should do a deed which he has not commanded me, and he might become angry with me and I should bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing."
8And Rebecca, his mother, said to him: "Upon me, my son, be thy curse; and again listen to my voice." 9And Jacob obeyed the words of his mother Rebecca, and he went and took two good and fat young kids and brought them in to his mother, and his mother made a meal out of them as he liked it. 10And Rebecca took the clothing of her elder son Esau, the most precious with her in the house, and clothed Jacob with them, and the skins of the kids she placed over his hands and upon the exposed parts of his body; and she gave the meat and the bread which she had made into the hands of her son Jacob.
Isaac Deceived
11And he went in to his father and said: "Behold, I am thy son; I have done as thou hast said to me: arise and sit up and eat of what I have hunted, my father, that thy soul may bless me."
12And Isaac said to his son, "What is this, that thou hast so suddenly found it, my son?"
13And Jacob said to him: "He who has caused me to find it, thy God, is before me."
14And Isaac said: "Come hither to me, that I may touch thee, my son, if thou art my son Esau, or if not." 15And Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he touched him. 16And he said: "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hand is the hand of Esau"; and he did not know him, for it was a fate from heaven to remove his spirit; and Isaac did not know him, for his hands were like his hands, and hairy like the hands of Esau, so that he should bless him.
17And he said, "Art thou my son Esau?"
And he said, "I am thy son."
And he said: "Bring hither to me, and I will eat of what thou hast hunted, my son, that my soul may bless thee."
Jacob Blessed
18And he brought to him the meal, and he ate; and he brought in wine, and he drank. 19And Isaac, his father, said to him: "Approach and kiss me, my son"; and he approached and kissed him. 20And he smelt the smell of his clothes, and he blessed him, and said: "Behold, the smell of my son is like the smell of the field which the Lord has blessed; and may the Lord give to thee and increase thee like the dew of the heaven and the dew of earth, and may grain increase and oil be plenty to thee, and may the nations serve thee and the peoples bow down to thee. 21Be the lord of thy brother, and may the sons of thy mother bow down to thee, and may all the blessings with which the Lord has blessed me and has blessed my father Abraham be thine and thy seed's to eternity: he that curseth thee shall be cursed, and he that blesseth thee shall be blessed."
Esau's Grief
22And when Isaac ended blessing his son Jacob, then Jacob went out from Isaac his father to hide himself. 23But Esau, his brother, came in from hunting, and he too prepared a meal and brought it in to his father, and said to his father, "Arise, my father, and eat of my prey, that thy soul may bless me."
24And Isaac, his father, said to him, "Who art thou?" 25And he said to him, "I am thy first-born son Esau; I have done as thou hast commanded me." 26And Isaac was very much astounded, and said: "Who was he that hunted and caught something for me, and brought it in, and I ate of all before thou earnest in, and I blessed him? 27Blessed shall he be and his seed to eternity."
28And when Esau heard the words of his father Isaac he cried with a loud and very bitter voice, and said to his father: "Bless me too, father!"
29And he said to him, "Thy brother came and took thy blessing."
30"And now I know why his name is called Jacob; behold he has ensnared me twice; the first time he took my birth-right, and now he takes my blessing. 31And he said, "Hast thou not a blessing left for me, my father?"
32And Isaac answered and said to Esau: "Behold, I have set him as lord over thee and all his brothers, and have given them to be his servants, and with much grain and oil and wine I have strengthened him, and what shall I do to thee, my son?"
33And Esau said to his father Isaac: "Hast thou but one blessing, father? Bless also me, father." 34And Esau raised his voice and wept.
And Isaac answered and said to him: "Behold, from the fatness of the earth shall be thy substance and from the dew of heaven above; and thou shalt live by thy sword and thou shalt serve thy brother. 35And it will happen when thou art great and shalt break his yoke off thy neck, thou shalt commit a sin unto death, and all thy seed shall be rooted out from under heaven."
Esau Plots Jacob's Death
36And Esau was wroth at Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart, "Now the days of grief may come for my father, that I may kill my brother Jacob."