22:1 Some time after these things God tested 1 Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham 2 replied. 22:2 God 3 said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac 4 – and go to the land of Moriah! 5 Offer him up there as a burnt offering 6 on one of the mountains which I will indicate to 7 you.”
22:3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. 8 He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out 9 for the place God had spoken to him about.
22:4 On the third day Abraham caught sight of 10 the place in the distance. 22:5 So he 11 said to his servants, “You two stay 12 here with the donkey while 13 the boy and I go up there. We will worship 14 and then return to you.” 15
22:6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, 16 and the two of them walked on together. 22:7 Isaac said to his father Abraham, 17 “My father?” “What is it, 18 my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, 19 “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” 22:8 “God will provide 20 for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.
22:9 When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there 21 and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up 22 his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. 22:10 Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter 23 his son. 22:11 But the Lord’s angel 24 called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered. 22:12 “Do not harm the boy!” 25 the angel said. 26 “Do not do anything to him, for now I know 27 that you fear 28 God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
22:13 Abraham looked up 29 and saw 30 behind him 31 a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he 32 went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” 33 It is said to this day, 34 “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.” 35
22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven 22:16 and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ 36 decrees the Lord, 37 ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 22:17 I will indeed bless you, 38 and I will greatly multiply 39 your descendants 40 so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession 41 of the strongholds 42 of their enemies. 22:18 Because you have obeyed me, 43 all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another 44 using the name of your descendants.’”
22:19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together 45 for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed. 46
22:20 After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah 47 also has borne children to your brother Nahor – 22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), 48 22:22 Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 22:23 (Now 49 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor. 22:24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children – Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. 50 23:2 Then she 51 died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. 52
23:3 Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife 53 and said to the sons of Heth, 54 23:4 “I am a temporary settler 55 among you. Grant 56 me ownership 57 of a burial site among you so that I may 58 bury my dead.” 59
23:5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, 60 23:6 “Listen, sir, 61 you are a mighty prince 62 among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you 63 from burying your dead.”
23:7 Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, 64 the sons of Heth. 23:8 Then he said to them, “If you agree 65 that I may bury my dead, 66 then hear me out. 67 Ask 68 Ephron the son of Zohar 23:9 if he will sell 69 me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly 70 for the full price, 71 so that I may own it as a burial site.”
23:10 (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite 72 replied to Abraham in the hearing 73 of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate 74 of his city – 23:11 “No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell 75 you both the field and the cave that is in it. 76 In the presence of my people 77 I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”
23:12 Abraham bowed before the local people 23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay 78 to you the price 79 of the field. Take it from me so that I may 80 bury my dead there.”
23:14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:15 “Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 81 400 pieces of silver, 82 but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
23:16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price 83 and weighed 84 out for him 85 the price 86 that Ephron had quoted 87 in the hearing of the sons of Heth – 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time. 88
23:17 So Abraham secured 89 Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border, 23:18 as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city. 90
23:19 After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. 23:20 So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site 91 from the sons of Heth.
24:1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, 92 and the Lord had blessed him 93 in everything. 24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the senior one 94 in his household who was in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thigh 95 24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise 96 by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire 97 a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living. 24:4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives 98 to find 99 a wife for my son Isaac.”
24:5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is not willing to come back with me 100 to this land? Must I then 101 take your son back to the land from which you came?”
24:6 “Be careful 102 never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him. 103 24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, 104 promised me with a solemn oath, 105 ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel 106 before you so that you may find 107 a wife for my son from there. 24:8 But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, 108 you will be free 109 from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!” 24:9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes. 110
24:10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. 111 He journeyed 112 to the region of Aram Naharaim 113 and the city of Nahor. 24:11 He made the camels kneel down by the well 114 outside the city. It was evening, 115 the time when the women would go out to draw water. 24:12 He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. 116 Be faithful 117 to my master Abraham. 24:13 Here I am, standing by the spring, 118 and the daughters of the people 119 who live in the town are coming out to draw water. 24:14 I will say to a young woman, ‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ 120 In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.” 121
24:15 Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah 122 with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor). 123 24:16 Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. 124 She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up. 24:17 Abraham’s servant 125 ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.” 24:18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering 126 her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink. 24:19 When she had done so, 127 she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.” 24:20 She quickly emptied 128 her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels. 24:21 Silently the man watched her with interest to determine 129 if the Lord had made his journey successful 130 or not.
24:22 After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka 131 and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels 132 and gave them to her. 133 24:23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. 134 “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
24:24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor. 135 24:25 We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, 136 “and room for you 137 to spend the night.”
24:26 The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord, 24:27 saying “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love 138 for my master! The Lord has led me 139 to the house 140 of my master’s relatives!” 141
24:28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about 142 these things. 24:29 (Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) 143 Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring. 24:30 When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring 144 and heard his sister Rebekah say, 145 “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing 146 by the camels near the spring. 24:31 Laban said to him, 147 “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! 148 Why are you standing out here when I have prepared 149 the house and a place for the camels?”
24:32 So Abraham’s servant 150 went to the house and unloaded 151 the camels. Straw and feed were given 152 to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet. 153 24:33 When food was served, 154 he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.” 155 “Tell us,” Laban said. 156
24:34 “I am the servant of Abraham,” he began. 24:35 “The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. 157 The Lord 158 has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. 24:36 My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him 159 when she was old, 160 and my master 161 has given him everything he owns. 24:37 My master made me swear an oath. He said, ‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, 24:38 but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find 162 a wife for my son.’ 24:39 But I said to my master, ‘What if the woman does not want to go 163 with me?’ 164 24:40 He answered, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, 165 will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family. 24:41 You will be free from your oath 166 if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’ 24:42 When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, 167 may events unfold as follows: 168 24:43 Here I am, standing by the spring. 169 When 170 the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say, “Give me a little water to drink from your jug.” 24:44 Then she will reply to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.’
24:45 “Before I finished praying in my heart, 171 along came Rebekah 172 with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’ 24:46 She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water. 24:47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ 173 I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists. 24:48 Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter 174 of my master’s brother for his son. 24:49 Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.” 175
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. 176 Our wishes are of no concern. 177 24:51 Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become 178 the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” 179
24:52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord. 24:53 Then he 180 brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother. 24:54 After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. 181
When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.” 182 24:55 But Rebekah’s 183 brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.” 24:56 But he said to them, “Don’t detain me – the Lord 184 has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return 185 to my master.” 24:57 Then they said, “We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.” 186 24:58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want 187 to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”
24:59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men. 24:60 They blessed Rebekah with these words: 188
“Our sister, may you become the mother 189 of thousands of ten thousands!
May your descendants possess the strongholds 190 of their enemies.”
24:61 Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with 191 the man. So Abraham’s servant 192 took Rebekah and left.
24:62 Now 193 Isaac came from 194 Beer Lahai Roi, 195 for 196 he was living in the Negev. 197 24:63 He 198 went out to relax 199 in the field in the early evening. 200 Then he looked up 201 and saw that 202 there were camels approaching. 24:64 Rebekah looked up 203 and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel 24:65 and asked 204 Abraham’s servant, 205 “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” “That is my master,” the servant replied. 206 So she took her veil and covered herself.
24:66 The servant told Isaac everything that had happened. 24:67 Then Isaac brought Rebekah 207 into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her 208 as his wife and loved her. 209 So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. 210
25:1 Abraham had taken 211 another 212 wife, named Keturah. 25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. 213 The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites. 25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants 214 of Keturah.
25:5 Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac. 25:6 But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines 215 and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac. 216
25:7 Abraham lived a total of 217 175 years. 25:8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. 218 He joined his ancestors. 219 25:9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah 220 near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite. 25:10 This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. 221 There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. 25:11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed 222 his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi. 223
25:12 This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, 224 whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
25:13 These are the names of Ishmael’s sons, by their names according to their records: 225 Nebaioth (Ishmael’s firstborn), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes 226 according to their clans.
25:17 Ishmael lived a total of 227 137 years. He breathed his last and died; then he joined his ancestors. 228 25:18 His descendants 229 settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next 230 to Egypt all the way 231 to Asshur. 232 They settled 233 away from all their relatives. 234
25:19 This is the account of Isaac, 235 the son of Abraham.
Abraham became the father of Isaac. 25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, 236 the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. 237
25:21 Isaac prayed to 238 the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 25:22 But the children struggled 239 inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” 240 So she asked the Lord, 241 25:23 and the Lord said to her,
“Two nations 242 are in your womb,
and two peoples will be separated from within you.
One people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.”
25:24 When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, 243 there were 244 twins in her womb. 25:25 The first came out reddish 245 all over, 246 like a hairy 247 garment, so they named him Esau. 248 25:26 When his brother came out with 249 his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. 250 Isaac was sixty years old 251 when they were born.
25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled 252 hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents. 253 25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, 254 but Rebekah loved 255 Jacob.
25:29 Now Jacob cooked some stew, 256 and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished. 25:30 So Esau said to Jacob, “Feed 257 me some of the red stuff – yes, this red stuff – because I’m starving!” (That is why he was also called 258 Edom.) 259
25:31 But Jacob replied, “First 260 sell me your birthright.” 25:32 “Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?” 261 25:33 But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” 262 So Esau 263 swore an oath to him and sold his birthright 264 to Jacob.
25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. 265 So Esau despised his birthright. 266
26:1 There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred 267 in the days of Abraham. 268 Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar. 26:2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; 269 settle down in the land that I will point out to you. 270 26:3 Stay 271 in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, 272 for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, 273 and I will fulfill 274 the solemn promise I made 275 to your father Abraham. 26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them 276 all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants. 277 26:5 All this will come to pass 278 because Abraham obeyed me 279 and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” 280 26:6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
26:7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” 281 He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, 282 “The men of this place will kill me to get 283 Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”
26:8 After Isaac 284 had been there a long time, 285 Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed 286 Isaac caressing 287 his wife Rebekah. 26:9 So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really 288 your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.” 289
26:10 Then Abimelech exclaimed, “What in the world have you done to us? 290 One of the men 291 might easily have had sexual relations with 292 your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!” 26:11 So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches 293 this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” 294
26:12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, 295 because the Lord blessed him. 296 26:13 The man became wealthy. 297 His influence continued to grow 298 until he became very prominent. 26:14 He had 299 so many sheep 300 and cattle 301 and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous 302 of him. 26:15 So the Philistines took dirt and filled up 303 all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.
26:16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, 304 for you have become much more powerful 305 than we are.” 26:17 So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley. 306 26:18 Isaac reopened 307 the wells that had been dug 308 back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up 309 after Abraham died. Isaac 310 gave these wells 311 the same names his father had given them. 312
26:19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing 313 water there, 26:20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled 314 with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac 315 named the well 316 Esek 317 because they argued with him about it. 318 26:21 His servants 319 dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it 320 Sitnah. 321 26:22 Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac 322 named it 323 Rehoboth, 324 saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”
26:23 From there Isaac 325 went up to Beer Sheba. 26:24 The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.” 26:25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped 326 the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well. 327
26:26 Now Abimelech had come 328 to him from Gerar along with 329 Ahuzzah his friend 330 and Phicol the commander of his army. 26:27 Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me 331 and sent me away from you.” 26:28 They replied, “We could plainly see 332 that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be 333 a pact between us 334 – between us 335 and you. Allow us to make 336 a treaty with you 26:29 so that 337 you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed 338 you, but have always treated you well 339 before sending you away 340 in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.” 341
26:30 So Isaac 342 held a feast for them and they celebrated. 343 26:31 Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. 344 Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms. 345
26:32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported. 346 26:33 So he named it Shibah; 347 that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba 348 to this day.
26:34 When 349 Esau was forty years old, 350 he married 351 Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 26:35 They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety. 352
27:1 When 353 Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, 354 he called his older 355 son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau 356 replied. 27:2 Isaac 357 said, “Since 358 I am so old, I could die at any time. 359 27:3 Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game 360 for me. 27:4 Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then 361 I will eat it so that I may bless you 362 before I die.”
27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. 363 When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back, 364 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau, 27:7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat 365 it and bless you 366 in the presence of the Lord 367 before I die.’ 27:8 Now then, my son, do 368 exactly what I tell you! 369 27:9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare 370 them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 27:10 Then you will take 371 it to your father. Thus he will eat it 372 and 373 bless you before he dies.”
27:11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin! 374 27:12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him 375 and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.” 27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, 376 my son! Just obey me! 377 Go and get them for me!”
27:14 So he went and got the goats 378 and brought them to his mother. She 379 prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it. 27:15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. 27:16 She put the skins of the young goats 380 on his hands 381 and the smooth part of his neck. 27:17 Then she handed 382 the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.
27:18 He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac 383 replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?” 384 27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up 385 and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.” 386 27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world 387 did you find it so quickly, 388 my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” 389 he replied. 390 27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, 391 my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.” 392 27:22 So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.” 27:23 He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob. 393 27:24 Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob 394 replied. 27:25 Isaac 395 said, “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. 396 Then I will bless you.” 397 So Jacob 398 brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac 399 drank. 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.” 27:27 So Jacob 400 went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent 401 of his clothing, he blessed him, saying,
“Yes, 402 my son smells
like the scent of an open field
which the Lord has blessed.
27:28 May God give you
the dew of the sky 403
and the richness 404 of the earth,
and plenty of grain and new wine.
27:29 May peoples serve you
and nations bow down to you.
You will be 405 lord 406 over your brothers,
and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. 407
May those who curse you be cursed,
and those who bless you be blessed.”
27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left 408 his father’s 409 presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. 410 27:31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau 411 said to him, “My father, get up 412 and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” 413 27:32 His father Isaac asked, 414 “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” 415 he replied, “Esau!” 27:33 Isaac began to shake violently 416 and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. 417 He will indeed be blessed!”
27:34 When Esau heard 418 his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. 419 He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!” 27:35 But Isaac 420 replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away 421 your blessing.” 27:36 Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! 422 He has tripped me up 423 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?”
27:37 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?” 27:38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” 424 Then Esau wept loudly. 425
27:39 So his father Isaac said to him,
“Indeed, 426 your home will be
away from the richness 427 of the earth,
and away from the dew of the sky above.
27:40 You will live by your sword
but you will serve your brother.
When you grow restless,
you will tear off his yoke
from your neck.” 428
27:41 So Esau hated 429 Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. 430 Esau said privately, 431 “The time 432 of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill 433 my brother Jacob!”
27:42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, 434 she quickly summoned 435 her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you. 436 27:43 Now then, my son, do what I say. 437 Run away immediately 438 to my brother Laban in Haran. 27:44 Live with him for a little while 439 until your brother’s rage subsides. 27:45 Stay there 440 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. 441 Why should I lose both of you in one day?” 442
27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed 443 because of these daughters of Heth. 444 If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!” 445