以撒为儿子祝福
1以撒年老的时候，眼睛昏花，几乎看不见。他把大儿子以扫叫来，说：“我儿啊！”以扫说：“我在这里。” 2以撒说：“我年老了，不知道还能活多久。 3现在，带着你的弓箭去田野为我打些野味来， 4照我喜欢的口味，做成美食给我吃，以便我在死前给你祝福。”
5利百加听见了以撒跟儿子以扫说的话。以扫出去打猎后， 6利百加就对她儿子雅各说：“我听见你父亲对你哥哥以扫说， 7‘你去打些野味回来，做成美食给我吃，以便我死之前在耶和华面前给你祝福。’ 8现在，孩子，你要听我的话，照我的吩咐去做。 9你到羊群里选两头上好的山羊羔，我好照你父亲喜爱的口味做成美食， 10由你拿去给他吃，让他死前为你祝福。”
11雅各对母亲利百加说：“哥哥以扫浑身是毛，我的皮肤光滑。 12如果父亲用手摸我，一定会发觉我骗他，那时候我不但得不到祝福，反会招来咒诅。” 13他母亲利百加对他说：“孩子啊，有咒诅，我来承担。你只管听我的话，把羊羔牵来。”
14于是，雅各把羊牵来交给母亲，他母亲就照他父亲喜爱的口味做成美食。 15利百加又拿了大儿子以扫留在家里最好的衣服，给小儿子雅各穿上， 16再用山羊皮把雅各光滑的手和脖子都包起来， 17然后把做好的美味和饼交给雅各。
18雅各来到父亲跟前，叫了一声：“父亲。”以撒回答说：“我在这里，孩子，你是谁？” 19雅各对父亲说：“我是你的大儿子以扫，你吩咐我的事，我已经办好了。请你坐起来，吃我打的野味，然后给我祝福。” 20以撒对他说：“孩子，你怎么这么快就打到野味了？”雅各回答说：“因为你的上帝耶和华让我碰见好机会。” 21以撒说：“孩子，过来，让我摸摸看你是不是我儿以扫。” 22雅各挨到父亲跟前，以撒摸着他说：“声音是雅各的声音，手却是以扫的手。” 23因为雅各手上有毛，与他哥哥以扫的手一样，以撒分辨不出来，就给他祝福。 24以撒又问：“你真是我的儿子以扫吗？”雅各回答说：“是。” 25以撒便说：“把野味拿给我，我吃了你打的野味就为你祝福。”雅各递上野味，以撒吃了；雅各又拿酒给他喝，他也喝了。 26以撒对他说：“孩子，你过来亲吻我。” 27雅各就挨上前去亲了父亲。以撒闻到他衣服上的气味，就祝福他说：
“我儿子的香气就像蒙耶和华赐福之田地的香气。
28愿上帝赐你天上的甘霖、肥沃的土地并丰富的五谷和新酒。
29愿万民都臣服于你，
万国都向你下拜。
愿你成为你弟兄的主人，
愿你母亲的儿子向你下拜。
咒诅你的，愿他受咒诅；
祝福你的，愿他蒙祝福。”
以扫求父亲祝福
30雅各接受了以撒的祝福才刚离开，他的哥哥以扫就打猎回来了。 31以扫把野味煮好，拿到父亲跟前，说：“父亲，请起来吃你儿子煮的野味，然后给我祝福。” 32他父亲以撒问道：“你是谁？”以扫回答说：“我是你的长子以扫。” 33以撒大为震惊，说：“你没有来之前，拿野味来给我吃的是谁呢？我已经吃了，也给那人祝福了，他将来必蒙祝福。”
34以扫听了放声痛哭，说：“父亲啊，求你也为我祝福！” 35以撒说：“你弟弟已经用诡计把你的福分夺去了。” 36以扫说：“怪不得他叫雅各，他已经骗了我两次，先前把我长子的名分夺去，现在又夺去我的福分！”接着他对父亲说：“难道你没有留下别的祝福可以给我吗？”
37以撒对以扫说：“我已经立他做你的主人，使他的众弟兄做他的仆人，并给他五谷和新酒。孩子啊，我还能为你做什么呢？” 38以扫对父亲说：“父亲啊，你只有一个祝福吗？父亲啊，求你也为我祝福！”以扫又放声大哭。 39以撒对他说：
“你住的地方必远离肥沃的土地，
也不会有天上的甘霖。
40你必倚靠刀剑生活，
又必服侍你的弟弟。
到你无法忍受的时候，
你必挣脱颈上的重轭。”
雅各逃往舅父家
41以扫因为父亲把祝福给了雅各，就对雅各怀恨在心，暗自思量说：“父亲已经不久人世，他死后，我要把雅各杀掉！” 42以扫的计谋传到利百加耳中。她就派人把雅各叫来，对他说：“你哥哥以扫想要杀你泄愤！ 43孩子，听我的话，现在就逃到哈兰你舅舅拉班那里， 44与他住些日子，一直住到你哥哥的气消了。 45等他气消了，忘了你对他所做的事，我会派人接你回来。我何必在一天之内失去你们两个呢？” 46利百加对以撒说：“我被这些赫人女子烦死了。如果雅各也像以扫一样娶那些赫人女子为妻，我活着还有什么意思呢？”
1When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”
“Here I am,” he answered.
2Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death. 3Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. 4Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, 6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, 7‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’ 8Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: 9Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. 10Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. 12What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”
13His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. 15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. 16She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. 17Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
18He went to his father and said, “My father.”
“Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
19Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
20Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?”
“The Lord your God gave me success,” he replied.
21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
22Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. 24“Are you really my son Esau?” he asked.
“I am,” he replied.
25Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”
Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. 26Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”
27So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,
“Ah, the smell of my son
is like the smell of a field
that the Lord has blessed.
28May God give you heaven’s dew
and earth’s richness—
an abundance of grain and new wine.
29May nations serve you
and peoples bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed
and those who bless you be blessed.”
30After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. 31He 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.”
32His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”
“I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
33Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
34When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
35But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob27:36 Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he takes advantage of or he deceives.? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
37Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
39His father Isaac answered him,
“Your dwelling will be
away from the earth’s richness,
away from the dew of heaven above.
40You will live by the sword
and you will serve your brother.
But when you grow restless,
you will throw his yoke
from off your neck.”
41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
42When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you. 43Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. 44Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides. 45When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
