Genesis 27:30-46

New American Standard Bible

The Stolen Blessing

³⁰ Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of his father Isaac, that his brother Esau came in from his hunting. ³¹ Then he also made a delicious meal, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “^(A)Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that ^[a](B)you may bless me.” ³² His father Isaac said to him, “^(C)Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, ^(D)your firstborn, Esau.” ³³ Then Isaac ^[b]trembled violently, and said, “^(E)Who then was he who hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate from all of it before you came, and blessed him? ^(F)Yes, and he shall be blessed.” ³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father, ^(G)he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me as well, my father!” ³⁵ And he said, “^(H)Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.” ³⁶ Then Esau said, “^[c]Is he not rightly named ^(I)[d]Jacob, for he has betrayed me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” ³⁷ But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him ^(J)your master, and I have given to him all his relatives ^[e]as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” ³⁸ Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, me as well, my father.” So Esau raised his voice and ^(K)wept.

³⁹ Then ^(L)his father Isaac answered and said to him,

⁴¹ So Esau ^(P)held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said ^[j]to himself, “^(Q)The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” ⁴² Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent word and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, “Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you. ⁴³ Now then, my son, ^(R)obey my voice, and arise, ^[k]flee to ^(S)Haran, to my brother ^(T)Laban! ⁴⁴ Stay with him ^(U)a few days, until your brother’s fury ^[l]subsides, ⁴⁵ until your brother’s anger ^[m]against you subsides and he forgets ^(V)what you did to him. Then I will send word and get you from there. Why should I lose you both in one day?”

⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of ^[n]living because of ^(W)the daughters of Heth; ^(X)if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”