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Genesis 27

    ²He said, See here now; I am old, I do not know when I may die.

    ³So now, I pray you, take your weapons, your [arrows in a] quiver and your bow, and go out into the open country and hunt game for me,

    ⁴And prepare me appetizing meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat of it, [preparatory] to giving you my blessing [as my firstborn] before I die.

    ⁵But Rebekah heard what Isaac said to Esau his son; and when Esau had gone to the open country to hunt for game that he might bring it,

    ⁶Rebekah said to Jacob her younger son, See here, I heard your father say to Esau your brother,

    ⁷Bring me game and make me appetizing meat, so that I may eat and declare my blessing upon you before the Lord before my death.

    ⁸So now, my son, do exactly as I command you.

    ⁹Go now to the flock, and from it bring me two good and suitable kids; and I will make them into appetizing meat for your father, such as he loves.

    ¹⁰And you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat and declare his blessing upon you before his death.

    ¹¹But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Listen, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.

    ¹²Suppose my father feels me; I will seem to him to be a cheat and an imposter, and I will bring [his] curse on me and not [his] blessing.

    ¹³But his mother said to him, On me be your curse, my son; only obey my word and go, fetch them to me.

    ¹⁴So [Jacob] went, got [the kids], and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared appetizing meat with a delightful odor, such as his father loved.

    ¹⁵Then Rebekah took her elder son Esau's best clothes which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

    ¹⁶And she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

    ¹⁷And she gave the savory meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

    ¹⁸So he went to his father and said, My father. And he said, Here am I; who are you, my son?

    ¹⁹And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done what you told me to do. Now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may proceed to bless me.

    ²⁰And Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found the game so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God caused it to come to me.

    ²¹But Isaac said to Jacob, Come close to me, I beg of you, that I may feel you, my son, and know whether you really are my son Esau or not.

    ²²So Jacob went near to Isaac, and his father felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

    ²³He could not identify him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

    ²⁴But he said, Are you really my son Esau? He answered, I am.

    ²⁵Then [Isaac] said, Bring it to me and I will eat of my son's game, that I may bless you. He brought it to him and he ate; and he brought him wine and he drank.

    ²⁶Then his father Isaac said, Come near and kiss me, my son.

    ²⁷So he came near and kissed him; and [Isaac] smelled his clothing and blessed him and said, The scent of my son is as the odor of a field which the Lord has blessed.

    ²⁸And may God give you of the dew of the heavens and of the fatness of the earth and abundance of grain and [new] wine;

    ²⁹Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you; be master over your brothers, and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Let everyone be cursed who curses you and favored with blessings who blesses you.

    ³⁰As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob was scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

    ³¹Esau had also prepared savory food and brought it to his father and said to him, Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me.

    ³²And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he replied, I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.

    ³³Then Isaac trembled and shook violently, and he said, Who? Where is he who has hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of it all before you came and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.

    ³⁴When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great and bitter cry and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father!^(A)

    ³⁵[Isaac] said, Your brother came with crafty cunning and treacherous deceit and has taken your blessing.

    ³⁶[Esau] replied, Is he not rightly named Jacob [the supplanter]? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing! Have you not still a blessing reserved for me?

    ³⁷And Isaac answered Esau, Behold, I have made [Jacob] your lord and master; I have given all his brethren to him for servants, and with corn and [new] wine have I sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?

    ³⁸Esau said to his father, Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father! And Esau lifted up [could not control] his voice and wept aloud.

    ³⁹Then Isaac his father answered, Your [blessing and] dwelling shall all come from the fruitfulness of the earth and from the dew of the heavens above;

    ⁴⁰By your sword you shall live and serve your brother. But [the time shall come] when you will grow restive and break loose, and you shall tear his yoke from off your neck.

    ⁴¹And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are very near. When [he is gone] I will ^[a]kill my brother Jacob.

    ⁴²These words of Esau her elder son were repeated to Rebekah. She sent for Jacob her younger son and said to him, See here, your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you [by intending] to kill you.

    ⁴³So now, my son, do what I tell you; arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran;

    ⁴⁴Linger and dwell with him for a while until your brother's fury is spent.

    ⁴⁵When your brother's anger is diverted from you, he will forget [the wrong] that you have done him. Then ^[b]I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I be deprived of both of you in one day?

    ⁴⁶Then Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth [these wives of Esau]! If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth such as these Hittite girls around here, what good will my life be to me?

Genesis 28

    ²Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take from there as a wife one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

    ³May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you until you become a group of peoples.

    ⁴May He give the blessing [He gave to] Abraham to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land He gave to Abraham, in which you are a sojourner.

    ⁵Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Padan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

    ⁶Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Padan-aram to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him, he gave him a charge, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

    ⁷And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan-aram.

    ⁸Also Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father.

    ⁹So Esau went to Ishmael and took to be his wife, [in addition] to the wives he [already] had, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.

    ¹⁰And Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.

    ¹¹And he came to a certain place and stayed there overnight, because the sun was set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down there to sleep.

    ¹²And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

    ¹³And behold, the Lord stood over and beside him and said, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father [forefather] and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying.

    ¹⁴And your offspring shall be as [countless as] the dust or sand of the ground, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and the north and the south; and by you and your Offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed and bless themselves.^(B)

    ¹⁵And behold, I am with you and will keep (watch over you with care, take notice of) you wherever you may go, and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done all of which I have told you.

    ¹⁶And Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.

    ¹⁷He was afraid and said, How to be feared and reverenced is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and ^[c]this is the gateway to heaven!

    ¹⁸And Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone he had put under his head, and he set it up for a pillar (a monument to the vision in his dream), and he poured oil on its top [in dedication].

    ¹⁹And he named that place Bethel [the house of God]; but the name of that city was Luz at first.

    ²⁰Then Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me food to eat and clothing to wear,

    ²¹So that I may come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God;

    ²²And this stone which I have set up as a pillar (monument) shall be God's house [a sacred place to me], and of all [the increase of possessions] that You give me I will give the tenth to You.

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¹⁸Now Jesus, when He saw the great throngs around Him, gave orders to cross to the other side [of the lake].

    ¹⁹And a scribe came up and said to Him, Master, I will accompany You wherever You go.

    ²⁰And Jesus replied to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have lodging places, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.

    ²¹Another of the disciples said to Him, Lord, let me first go and bury [^[a]care for till death] my father.

    ²²But Jesus said to him, Follow Me, and leave the dead [^[b]in sin] to bury their own dead.

    ²³And after He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.

    ²⁴And ^[c]suddenly, behold, there arose a violent storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered up by the waves; but He was sleeping.

    ²⁵And they went and awakened Him, saying, Lord, rescue and preserve us! We are perishing!

    ²⁶And He said to them, Why are you timid and afraid, O you of little faith? Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great and wonderful calm (^[d]a perfect peaceableness).

    ²⁷And the men were stunned with bewildered wonder and marveled, saying, What kind of Man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!

    ²⁸And when He arrived at the other side in the country of the Gadarenes, two men under the control of demons went to meet Him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce and savage that no one was able to pass that way.

    ²⁹And behold, they shrieked and screamed, What have You to do with us, Jesus, Son of God? Have You come to torment us before the appointed time?^(A)

    ³⁰Now at some distance from there a drove of many hogs was grazing.

    ³¹And the demons begged Him, If You drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs.

    ³²And He said to them, Begone! So they came out and went into the hogs, and behold, the whole drove rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the water.

    ³³The herdsmen fled and went into the town and reported everything, including what had happened to the men under the power of demons.

    ³⁴And behold, the whole town went out to meet Jesus; and as soon as they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their locality.