Genesis 27:30-41

30Isaac finished blessing Jacob. Jacob had barely left when his brother Esau came in from hunting.

31He, too, prepared a good-tasting meal and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Please, Father, eat some of the meat I’ve hunted for you so that you will bless me.”

32“Who are you?” his father Isaac asked him. “I’m your firstborn son Esau,” he answered.

33Trembling violently all over, Isaac asked, “Who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it before you came in. I blessed him, and he will stay blessed.”

34When Esau heard these words from his father, he shouted out a very loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, Father!”

35Isaac said, “Your brother came and deceived me and has taken away your blessing.”

36Esau said, “Isn’t that why he’s named Jacob? He’s cheated me twice already: He took my rights as firstborn, and now he’s taken my blessing.” So he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

37Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him your master, and I have made all his brothers serve him. I’ve provided fresh grain and new wine for him. What is left for me to do for you, Son?”

38Esau asked, “Do you have only one blessing, Father? Bless me too, Father!” And Esau sobbed loudly.

39His father Isaac answered him, “The place where you live will lack the fertile fields of the earth and the dew from the sky above.

40You will use your sword to live, and you will serve your brother. But eventually you will gain your freedom and break his yoke  off your neck.”

41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. Esau said to himself, “The time to mourn for my father is near. Then I’ll kill my brother Jacob.”