1When Laughter (Isaac) was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Hairy (Esau) his eldest son, and said to him, “My son”. And Hairy (Esau) said to him, “Behold, here am I.”
2 He said, Look, I am old, I don’t know when I will die.
3 Please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me some venison;
4 Then make me some savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless you before I die.”
5 Secured (Rebekah) heard Laughter (Isaac) speak to Hairy (Esau) his son. And Hairy (Esau) went to the field to hunt and bring home some venison.
6 So Secured (Rebekah) spoke to Heel-Grabber (Jacob) her son, saying, “I heard your father speak to your brother Hairy (Esau) saying,
7”'Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless you before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) before my death.
8Now therefore, my son, do what I tell you.
9Go to the flock, and fetch me two good goat kids and I will make the savory meat your father loves.
10Then take it to your father, that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death.
11So Heel-Grabber (Jacob) said to Secured (Rebekah) his mother, “Look, Hairy (Esau) my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
1What if my father feels me? He will know I am a deceiver. I will bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.”
13His mother said, “Upon me be your curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.”
14So he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made the savory meat his father loved.
15Then Secured (Rebekah) took her eldest son Hairy's (Esau) clothes, which were in her house, and put them on Heel-Grabber (Jacob) her younger son:
16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and on the smooth of his neck:
17And she gave the savory meat and the bread, which she had prepared, to her son Heel-Grabber (Jacob).
18He went to his father, and said, “My father” His father replied, “Here am I; who are you, my son?”
19Heel-Grabber (Jacob) said to his father, “I am Hairy (Esau) your first born; I have done what you asked me. Please sit up and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”
20Laughter (Isaac) said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” Laughter (Isaac) said to Heel-Grabber (Jacob), “Come near please, so I can feel you, my son, to know if you are my son Hairy (Esau) or not.”
22Heel-Grabber (Jacob) went near Laughter (Isaac) his father; and he felt him, and said, “The voice is Heel-Grabber (Jacob)'s voice, but the hands are the hands of Hairy (Esau).”
23And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Hairy (Esau)'s hands: so he blessed him.
24He said, “Are you my son Hairy (Esau)?” Heel-Grabber (Jacob) replied, “I am.”
25He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it near to him, and he ate: and he brought him wine and he drank.
26His father Laughter (Isaac) said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
27So he came near, and kissed him. Laughter (Isaac) smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has blessed:
28Therefore may God ('Elohiym) give of you the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:
29Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons bow down to you: cursed be every one that curses you, and blessed be he that blesses you.”
30As soon as Laughter (Isaac) had made an end of blessing Heel-Grabber (Jacob), and Heel-Grabber (Jacob) was scarce yet gone out from the presence of Laughter (Isaac) his father, that Hairy (Esau) his brother came in from his hunting.
31He also had made savory meat, and brought it to his father. He said to his farther, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me.”
32Laughter (Isaac) his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn Hairy (Esau).”
33Then Laughter (Isaac) trembled with anger, and said, “Who? Where is he that brought me venison, and I ate of it before you came. I have blessed him? Yes, he shall be blessed.”
34When Hairy (Esau) heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father.”
35Laughter (Isaac) said, “Your brother came subtly, and has taken away your blessing.”
36He said, “Is he not rightly named Heel-Grabber (Jacob)? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he asked, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
37Laughter (Isaac) answered and said to Hairy (Esau), Look, I have made him your lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with grain and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now for you, my son?”
38Hairy (Esau) said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” Hairy (Esau) wept loudly.
39Laughter (Isaac) his father answered, “Behold, your dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
40By your sword you shall live, and shall serve your brother. But it shall come to pass you will have the dominion and you shall break his yoke from off your neck.”
41So Hairy (Esau) hated Heel-Grabber (Jacob) because of the blessing which his father blessed him with: and Hairy (Esau) said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Heel-Grabber (Jacob).”
42These words of Hairy (Esau) her elder son were told to Secured (Rebekah): and she sent for Heel-Grabber (Jacob) her younger son, and said to him, Your brother Hairy (Esau), is feeling sorry for himself, and is threatening to kill you.
43Now therefore, my son, do what I say; arise, flee to White (Laban) my brother in Mountaineer (Haran);
44Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
45When your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him: then I will send for you to come home. Why should I be deprived of you both in one day?”
46Then Secured (Rebekah) said to Laughter (Isaac), “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Terror (Heth): if Heel-Grabber (Jacob) takes a wife of the daughters of Terror (Heth), such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?”
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