Genesis 27

1When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”Cross-references: Gen 25:23 · Gen 48:10 · 1Sam 3:2 · Eccl 12:3 · John 9:3

2He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.Cross-references: Gen 47:29 · Gen 48:21 · 1Sam 20:3 · Prov 27:1 · Eccl 9:10 · Isa 38:1 · +3 more

3Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.Cross-references: Gen 10:9 · Gen 25:27 · 1Cor 6:12

4Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”Cross-references: Gen 14:19 · Gen 24:60 · Gen 27:7 · Gen 27:23 · Gen 27:25 · Gen 27:27 · +12 more

5Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

6Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,Cross-references: Gen 25:28

7‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’Cross-references: Deut 33:1 · Josh 6:26 · 1Sam 24:19

8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.Cross-references: Gen 25:23 · Gen 27:13 · Gen 27:43 · Acts 4:19 · Acts 5:29 · Eph 6:1

9Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.Cross-references: Judg 13:15 · 1Sam 16:20

10You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.Cross-references: Gen 25:25

12What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”Cross-references: Gen 9:25 · Gen 25:27 · Gen 27:21 · Gen 27:36 · Deut 27:18 · Job 12:16 · +4 more

13His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”Cross-references: Gen 25:23 · Gen 25:33 · Gen 27:8 · Gen 43:9 · 1Sam 14:24 · 1Sam 14:36 · +3 more

14He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.Cross-references: Gen 25:28 · Gen 27:4 · Gen 27:7 · Gen 27:9 · Gen 27:17 · Gen 27:31 · +3 more

15Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.Cross-references: Gen 27:27 · Luke 15:22 · Luke 20:46

16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

17She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

19Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”Cross-references: Gen 25:25 · Gen 27:4 · Gen 27:21 · Gen 27:24 · Gen 29:23 · 1Ki 13:18 · +4 more

20Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”Cross-references: Gen 24:12 · Ex 20:7 · Job 13:7

21Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”Cross-references: Gen 27:12 · Ps 73:28 · Isa 57:19 · James 4:8

22Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

23He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.Cross-references: Gen 27:16 · Rom 9:11 · Heb 11:20

24He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”Cross-references: 1Sam 21:2 · 1Sam 21:13 · 1Sam 27:10 · 2Sam 14:5 · Job 13:7 · Job 15:5 · +7 more

25He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.Cross-references: Gen 27:4

26His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

27He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Ps 65:10 · Song 2:13 · Song 4:11 · Song 7:12 · Hos 14:6 · +2 more

28God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.Cross-references: Gen 27:39 · Gen 45:18 · Gen 49:20 · Num 13:20 · Num 18:12 · Deut 7:13 · +23 more

29Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”Cross-references: Gen 9:25 · Gen 12:3 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 25:22 · Gen 25:33 · Gen 27:37 · +27 more

30As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

31He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”Cross-references: Gen 27:4

32Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”Cross-references: Gen 27:18

33Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”Cross-references: Gen 28:3 · Job 21:6 · Job 37:1 · Ps 55:5 · John 10:10 · John 10:28 · +4 more

34When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”Cross-references: 1Sam 30:4 · Prov 1:24 · Prov 1:31 · Prov 19:3 · Luke 13:24 · Heb 12:17

35He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”Cross-references: Gen 27:19 · 2Ki 10:19 · Job 13:7 · Mal 2:10 · Rom 3:7 · 2Cor 4:7 · +1 more

36He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”Cross-references: Gen 25:26 · Gen 25:31 · Gen 32:28 · John 1:47

37Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”Cross-references: Gen 25:23 · Gen 27:28 · 2Sam 8:14 · Rom 9:10

38Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.Cross-references: Gen 27:34 · Gen 27:36 · Gen 49:28 · Prov 1:24 · Isa 32:10 · Isa 65:14 · +1 more

39Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above.Cross-references: Gen 27:28 · Gen 36:6 · Josh 24:4 · Heb 11:20

40You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”Cross-references: Gen 25:23 · Gen 32:6 · 2Sam 8:14 · 1Ki 11:15 · 2Ki 8:20 · 2Ki 14:7 · +9 more

41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”Cross-references: Gen 4:2 · Gen 32:6 · Gen 32:11 · Gen 35:29 · Gen 37:4 · Gen 37:8 · +22 more

42The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.Cross-references: Gen 37:18 · Gen 42:21 · 1Sam 30:5 · Job 20:12 · Ps 64:5 · Prov 2:14 · +1 more

43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 12:4 · Gen 24:29 · Gen 27:8 · Gen 27:13 · Gen 28:7 · +4 more

44Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—Cross-references: Gen 31:38 · Gen 31:41

45until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”Cross-references: Gen 4:8 · Gen 9:5 · Gen 27:35 · 2Sam 14:6 · Prov 19:21 · Lam 3:37 · +2 more

46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”Cross-references: Gen 24:3 · Gen 26:34 · Gen 28:8 · Gen 34:1 · Num 11:15 · 1Ki 19:4 · +5 more