Genesis 27:28-28:4

English Standard Version

²⁸May God give you of ^(A)the dew of heaven
    and of the fatness of the earth
    and ^(B)plenty of grain and wine.
²⁹Let peoples serve you,
    and nations ^(C)bow down to you.
^(D)Be lord over your brothers,
    and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
^(E)Cursed be everyone who curses you,
    and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

³⁰As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. ³¹He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me.” ³²His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” ³³Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.” ³⁴As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, ^(F)he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” ³⁵But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” ³⁶Esau said, ^(G)“Is he not rightly named Jacob?^[a] For he has cheated me these two times. ^(H)He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” ³⁷Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, ^(I)I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and ^(J)with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” ³⁸Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And ^(K)Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

³⁹Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:

“Behold, ^(L)away from^[b] the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
    and away from^[c] the dew of heaven on high.
⁴⁰By your sword you shall live,
    and you ^(M)shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
    ^(N)you shall break his yoke from your neck.”

⁴¹Now Esau ^(O)hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, ^(P)“The days of mourning for my father are approaching; ^(Q)then I will kill my brother Jacob.” ⁴²But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. ⁴³Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran ⁴⁴and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away— ⁴⁵until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”

⁴⁶Then Rebekah said to Isaac, ^(R)“I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.^[d] ^(S)If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Jacob Sent to Laban

28 Then Isaac called Jacob ^(T)and blessed him and directed him, ^(U)“You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. ²^(V)Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of ^(W)Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. ³^(X)God Almighty^[e] bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. ⁴May he give ^(Y)the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of ^(Z)the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”