Genesis 27:19-35

New International Version

¹⁹ Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn.^(A) I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game,^(B) so that you may give me your blessing.”^(C)

²⁰ Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?”

“The Lord your God gave me success,^(D)” he replied.

²¹ Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you,^(E) my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

²² Jacob went close to his father Isaac,^(F) who touched^(G) him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” ²³ He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau;^(H) so he proceeded to bless him. ²⁴ “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked.

“I am,” he replied.

²⁵ Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”^(I)

Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. ²⁶ Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”

²⁷ So he went to him and kissed^(J) him^(K). When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes,^(L) he blessed him and said,

³⁰ After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. ³¹ He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”^(U)

³² His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”^(V)

“I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.^(W)”

³³ Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me?^(X) I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!^(Y)”

³⁴ When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry^(Z) and said to his father, “Bless^(AA) me—me too, my father!”

³⁵ But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully^(AB) and took your blessing.”^(AC)