(1) When Isaac was old and his eyes were very weak, he called Esau and said to him, “My son.” Esau answered, “Here I am.” (2) And Isaac said, “I am old now, and I do not know how soon I may die. (3) Take your bow and arrow, and go hunt me some meat. (4) Then prepare a meal for me, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
(5) Rebekah had been listening as Isaac spoke to Esau. When Esau had gone out to hunt, (6) Rebekah said to Jacob, “I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying, (7) ‘Bring me some meat and prepare a meal for me to eat, that I may bless you, with God’s approval, before I die.’ (8) Now, my son, listen carefully as I tell you. (9) Go to the flock and fetch me two lambs, and I will make a meal for your father. (10) Then take it to your father, in order that he may bless you instead of Esau.”
(11) Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man and I have smooth skin. (12) If my father touches me, he'll see me as a trickster and curse me, not bless me.” (13) But his mother said to him, “Your curse, my son, will me! Just do as I say and go..”
(14) He got the lambs and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a meal. (15) Rebekah then took Esau's clothes, which were there in the house, and had her younger son Jacob put them on, (16) and she covered his hands and his neck with the lambs' hair. (17) Then she put the meal and bread that she made in Jacob's hands.
(18) He went to his father and said, “Father.” And he said, “Yes, which of my sons are you?” (19) Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your first-born; I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat my meal, so that you may give me your blessing.”
(24) Isaac asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And when Jacob said, “I am,” (25) he said, “Serve me and let me eat my son’s meal that I may give you my blessing.” So Jacob served Isaac and he ate and he drank. (26) Then his father Isaac said to Jacob, “Come close and kiss me, my son”; (27) and Jacob went up and kissed him. And Isaac smelled Jacob's clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that God has blessed."
(30) No sooner had Jacob left his father Isaac—after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob—than his brother Esau came back. (31) He too prepared a meal and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father sit up and eat of his son’s gamealme, so that you may give me your blessing.”
(32) His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” And Esau said, “I am your son, Esau, your first-born!” (33) Isaac was shaking violently. “Who was it then,” he demanded, “that hunted meat and brought it to me? Moreover, I ate it before you came, and I blessed him; now he must remain blessed!”
(34) When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst into wild and bitter crying, and said to his father, “Bless me too, Father!”