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Genesis 27:1-46 — Jacob Deceives Isaac

Gen.27.1-46

¹Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had grown dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.” ²He said, "Behold now, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. ³Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. ⁴And prepare for me a tasty dish, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die." ⁵Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. So Esau went to the field to hunt game and bring it. ⁶And Rebekah said to Jacob her son, "Behold, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying, ⁷'Bring me game and prepare for me a tasty dish, that I may eat and bless you before the LORD before my death.' ⁸Now therefore, my son, listen to my voice according to what I command you. ⁹Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, and I will make them into a tasty dish for your father, such as he loves. ¹⁰Then you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death." ¹¹But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man. ¹²Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be in his eyes as a deceiver, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing." ¹³His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me.” ¹⁴So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made a tasty dish, such as his father loved. ¹⁵Then Rebekah took the choice garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. ¹⁶And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. ¹⁷Then she handed the tasty dish and the bread that she had prepared to her son Jacob. ¹⁸He came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” ¹⁹Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please arise, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul may bless me.” ²⁰Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because the LORD your God brought it to me.” ²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.” ²²So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” ²³He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him. ²⁴He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.” ²⁵He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. ²⁶Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.” ²⁷So he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed. ²⁸May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and new wine. ²⁹May 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 everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you." ³⁰As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. ³¹He also made a tasty dish and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, so that your soul may bless me.” ³²Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” ³³Then Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it then who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate of it all before you came, and I blessed him—yes, and he shall be blessed!” ³⁴When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” ³⁵But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.” ³⁶He said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob ? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” ³⁷Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him master over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants, and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” ³⁸Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. ³⁹Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be your dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above. ⁴⁰By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but it shall come to pass, when you grow restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck." ⁴¹Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” ⁴²But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you. ⁴³Now therefore, my son, listen to my voice: arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran, ⁴⁴and stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away— ⁴⁵until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?" ⁴⁶Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good is my life to me?”

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4/11/2026

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