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BOOK OF GENESIS
GENESIS 27
1When Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim he could hardly see, he called his eldest son Esau and said to him, My son. Esau replied, Here I am.
2Isaac said, I am now an old man and do not know the day of my death.
3So please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt some wild game for me.
4Make me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me to eat; that I may bless you before I die.
5Now Rebekah heard Isaac speaking to Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for wild game, and to bring it back,
6Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
7Bring me some wild game and make me some tasty food, then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.
8Now then, my son, do exactly as I command you.
9Go now to the flock and fetch me two young goats, and I will make tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.
10Then you will bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.
11But Esau my brother is a hairy man, Jacob replied, and I have smooth skin.
12My father may touch me! Then he will think I am mocking him, and I will bring a curse upon myself instead of a blessing.
13His mother said to him, Let your curse fall on me, my son. Just obey my word and go and fetch them for me.
14So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and she prepared a tasty meal, just the way his father liked it.
15Then Rebekah took the best garments of her eldest son Esau, which were in her house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth part of his neck.
17Then she gave the tasty meal and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.
18He went to his father, and said, My father. Isaac replied, Here am I. Which are you, my son?
19And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Now sit up and eat my wild game, so that you may bless me.
20But Isaac asked him, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he replied, Because the LORD your God brought it to me.
21Then Isaac said to Jacob, Please come near, my son, so that I may feel you, and know for certain whether you are my son Esau or not.
22So Jacob went near to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's.
23And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
24He asked, Are you truly my son Esau? And Jacob replied, I am.
25Isaac said, Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son's wild game, then I will bless you. So he served him and he ate, and he brought him wine and he drank.
26Then his father Isaac said to him, Come close and kiss me, my son.
27So Jacob went over and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, Yes, the smell of my son is like the scent of the fields which the LORD has blessed.
28May God give you the dew of the heavens, and the fat of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
29Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brethren, and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those that curse you, and blessed be those that bless you.
30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, when his brother Esau came in from hunting.
31And he also had prepared some tasty food, and brought it to his father. Esau said to him, My father, get up and eat some of your son's wild game, then you can bless me.
32His father Isaac asked, Who are you? I am your son, he replied, your firstborn Esau.
33Isaac trembled violently, and said, Then who else hunted wild game and brought it to me? I have eaten it all before you came, and have blessed him? And indeed he will be blessed!
34When Esau heard his father's words, he cried with a loud and bitter cry, and said, Bless me too, father.
35But Isaac replied, Your brother came with deceit and has taken your blessing.
36Esau said, Rightly is he is named Jacob; for he has supplanted me twice now. He took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. Then he asked, Haven't you saved a blessing for me?
37Isaac answered and said to Esau, But I have already made him your lord; and all his brethren I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What is left that I can do for you, my son?
38And Esau said to his father, Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me too! Then Esau wept loudly.
39So his father Isaac answered and said to him, Indeed, away from the fatness of the earth will your home be, and away from the dew of the heavens on high.
40By your sword you will live, but you shall serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will break his yoke from off your neck.
41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand, then I will slay my brother Jacob.
42When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, Your brother Esau comforts himself by planning to kill you.
43Now then, my son, do as I say, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.
44Live with him a little while until your brother's fury subsides.
45When 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 lose both of you in one day?
46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these who are of the daughters of the land, I would want to die.
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- St. Ephrem the Syrian – Commentary on Genesis (Orthodox/Catholic, Syriac tradition, 4th century)
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