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GenèseChapitre 27

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When Isaac had grown old and his eyes were so dim that he could no longer see, he called Esau, his older son, and said to him, "My son." And he answered, "Here I am."
So now take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, go out to the field, and hunt game for me.
Then prepare me the kind of tasty food I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."
Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went off to the field to hunt game and bring it back,
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Listen, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
Now then, my son, listen to me and do exactly what I tell you.
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into tasty food for your father, the kind he loves.
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."
But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.
What if my father touches me? Then I will seem to him like a fraud, and I will bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing."
His mother said to him, "Let the curse fall on me, my son. Just listen to me and go get them for me."
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she made the tasty food his father loved.
Then Rebekah took the finest clothes of her older son Esau, which she kept in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
She covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the skins of the young goats,
and she placed the tasty food and the bread she had made into the hands of her son Jacob.
He went to his father and said, "My father." And he answered, "Here I am. Which of my sons are you?"
Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me."
Isaac said to his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "The LORD your God brought it my way."
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer, my son, so I can touch you and know whether you really are my son Esau or not."
So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
Then he said, "Bring it to me, and let me eat some of my son's game, so that I may bless you." He brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here and kiss me, my son."
So he came near and kissed him. And when Isaac smelled the scent of his clothes, he blessed him and said: "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field the LORD has blessed.
May God give you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth, an abundance of grain and new wine.
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you."
Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had barely left his father's presence, when his brother Esau came in from his hunt.
He too prepared tasty food and brought it to his father. He said to him, "Let my father sit up and eat some of his son's game, so that you may bless me."
Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came, and I blessed him—and blessed he will remain!"
When Esau heard his father's words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!"
But he said, "Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing."
Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? He has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you saved a blessing for me?"
Isaac answered Esau, "I have made him your master and given him all his brothers as servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I possibly do for you, my son?"
Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!" And Esau wept aloud.
Then his father Isaac answered him: "Look, your dwelling will be far from the richness of the earth, far from the dew of heaven above."[^1] [^1]: The Hebrew preposition can also be read as "away from" or "from," so the line may also mean "your dwelling will be of the richness of the earth and of the dew of heaven above," as in the blessing of verse 28.
You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will break his yoke from your neck."
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Look, your brother Esau is comforting himself with the thought of killing you.
Now then, my son, listen to me: get up and flee to my brother Laban in Haran.
Stay with him a while, until your brother's fury subsides,
until your brother's anger against you turns away and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in a single day?"
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the Hittite women, such as these, from the daughters of this land, what good is my life to me?"
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