The Holy Ivri Heritage Bible

1When Yitzchak was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esav his elder son and said: “My son.” He said: “Hineni [Here I am].” 2He said: “Behold, I am old and do not know the day of my death. 3Now take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. 4Prepare me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.” 5Rivkah heard when Yitzchak spoke to Esav his son. Esav went to the field to hunt game and bring it. 6Rivkah spoke to Ya’akov her younger son: “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esav your brother, saying, 7‘Bring me game and prepare savory food, that I may eat and bless you before Yahuah before my death.’ 8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice in what I command you. 9Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will prepare them as savory food for your father, such as he loves. 10You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.” 11Ya’akov said to Rivkah his mother: “Esav my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver, and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.” 13His mother said: “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.” 14He went and brought them to his mother, and she prepared savory food such as his father loved. 15Rivkah took the best garments of Esav her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Ya’akov her younger son. 16She put the skins of the goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17She gave the savory food and the bread she had prepared into the hand of Ya’akov her son. 18He came to his father and said: “My father.” He said: “Hineni; who are you, my son?” 19Ya’akov said: “I am Esav your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.” 20Yitzchak said: “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said: “Because Yahuah your Elohim brought it to me.” 21Yitzchak said to Ya’akov: “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are truly Esav or not.” 22Ya’akov came near to Yitzchak his father, who felt him and said: “The voice is Ya’akov’s voice, but the hands are Esav’s hands.” 23He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like Esav’s hands. So he blessed him. 24He said: “Are you truly my son Esav?” He said: “I am.” 25He said: “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son’s game, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank. 26Yitzchak his father said: “Come near and kiss me, my son.” 27He came near and kissed him. Yitzchak smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him, saying: “See, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which Yahuah has blessed. 28May Elohim give you of the dew of the shamayim, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of dagan [grain] and tirosh [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. Cursed be everyone who curses you, And blessed be everyone who bless you.” 30As soon as Yitzchak had finished blessing Ya’akov, and Ya’akov had scarcely gone out from his father’s presence, Esav his brother came in from hunting. 31He also prepared savory food and brought it to his father, and said: “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that your soul may bless me.” 32Yitzchak said: “Who are you?” He said: “I am your son, your firstborn, Esav.” 33Yitzchak trembled exceedingly and said: “Who then is he who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it before you came, and I blessed him — and indeed he shall be blessed.” 34When Esav heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said: “Bless me, even me also, my father!” 35He said: “Your brother came b'mirmah [with deceit/treachery], and has taken away your blessing.” 36Esav said: “Is he not rightly named Ya’akov [Supplanter]? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my bekhorah [birthright /firstborn status], and now he has taken away my blessing.” He said: “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 37Yitzchak answered: “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants. With grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” 38Esav said: “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!” And Esav lifted up his voice and wept. 39Yitzchak his father answered: “Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of the shamayim from above. 40By your cherev [sword] you shall live, And you shall serve your brother. But it shall come to pass, When you grow restless, You shall break his yoke from your neck.” 41Esav hated Ya’akov because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esav said in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Ya’akov.” 42The words of Esav were told to Rivkah. She called Ya’akov her younger son and said: “Behold, your brother Esav comforts himself by planning to kill you. 43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Lavan my brother in Haran. 44Stay with him a while, until your brother’s fury turns away, 45Until your brother’s anger turns away and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?” 46Rivkah said to Yitzchak: “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Chet. If Ya’akov takes a wife from the daughters of this land, what good will my life be to me?”