Genesis 27:28-46

28May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

31He also 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 firstborn son,” he replied, “Esau!”

33Isaac began to shake violently 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. He will indeed be blessed!”

34When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

35But Isaac replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”

36Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! He has tripped me up 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?”

37Isaac 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?”

38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

39So his father Isaac said to him, “Indeed, your home will be away from the richness of the earth, and away from the dew of the sky above.

40You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, “The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”

42When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

43Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

44Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.

45Stay there 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. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”