1 When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?"

He said to him, "Here I am."

2 He said, "See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death. 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison. 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."

5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. 9 Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. 10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son. 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. 17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?"

He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?"

He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."

21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." 23 He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. 24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?"

He said, "I am."

25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you."

He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank. 26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son." 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,

"Behold, the smell of my son

is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

28 God give you of the dew of the sky,

of the fatness of the earth,

and plenty of grain and new wine.

29 Let peoples serve you,

and nations bow down to you.

Be lord over your brothers.

Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.

Cursed be everyone who curses you.

Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me."

32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?"

He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."

35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

36 He said, "Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?"

37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?"

38 Esau said to his father, "Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 Isaac his father answered him,

"Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth,

and of the dew of the sky from above.

40 You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother.

It will happen, when you will break loose,

that you will shake his yoke from off your neck."

41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away— 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

1 Toe Isak oud geword het en sy oë swak was, sodat hy nie kon sien nie, het hy sy oudste seun Esau geroep en vir hom gesê: My seun! En hy het hom geantwoord: Hier is ek!

2 Toe sê hy: Kyk tog, ek het oud geword, ek weet die dag van my dood nie.

3 Neem dan nou tog jou wapens, jou pylkoker en jou boog, en gaan uit in die veld en jag vir my 'n stuk wild

4 en maak vir my lekker ete klaar soos ek dit graag wil hê; en bring dit vir my om te eet; sodat my siel jou kan seën voordat ek sterwe.

5 En Rebekka het geluister terwyl Isak met sy seun Esau spreek. En Esau het in die veld gegaan om 'n stuk wild te jag en dit te bring.

6 Toe het Rebekka met haar seun Jakob gespreek: Kyk, ek het jou vader met jou broer Esau hoor spreek en sê:

7 Bring vir my 'n stuk wild en maak vir my lekker ete, dat ek kan eet en jou kan seën voor die aangesig van die HERE voor my dood.

8 My seun, luister dan nou na my, na wat ek jou beveel.

9 Loop nou na die kleinvee en gaan haal vir my daar twee mooi bokkies, dat ek jou vader daarvan 'n lekker ete kan maak soos hy dit graag wil hê.

10 Dan moet jy dit na jou vader bring, dat hy kan eet; sodat hy jou kan seën voor sy dood.

11 Toe sê Jakob vir sy moeder Rebekka: Kyk, my broer Esau is 'n harige man en ek is 'n gladde man.

12 Miskien sal my vader my betas, en ek sal in sy oë wees soos 'n spotter; so sou ek dan 'n vloek oor my bring en nie 'n seën nie.

13 Maar sy moeder antwoord hom: Laat jou vloek op my wees, my seun! Luister net na my en gaan haal dit vir my.

14 Toe het hy dit gaan haal en na sy moeder gebring. En sy moeder het daarvan 'n lekker ete gemaak soos sy vader dit graag wou hê.

15 Ook neem Rebekka die beste klere van Esau, haar oudste seun, wat by haar in die huis was, en sy trek dit vir Jakob, haar jongste seun, aan;

16 en die velle van die bokkies trek sy oor sy hande en oor die gladdigheid van sy nek,

17 en sy gee die lekker ete en die brood wat sy gemaak het, in die hand van Jakob, haar seun.

18 Toe kom hy by sy vader en sê: My vader! En hy antwoord: Hier is ek! Wie is jy, my seun?

19 En Jakob sê aan sy vader: Ek is Esau, u eersgeborene. Ek het gedoen soos u my beveel het. Rig u tog op, sit en eet van my wildsvleis, dat u siel my kan seën.

20 Daarop het Isak aan sy seun gesê: Hoe het jy dit so gou gekry, my seun? En hy antwoord: Omdat die Here u God dit my laat teëkom het.

21 En Isak sê vir Jakob: Kom tog nader, dat ek jou kan betas, my seun, of jy waarlik my seun Esau is of nie.

22 En Jakob het nader gekom na sy vader Isak, en hy het hom betas en gesê: Die stem is Jakob se stem, maar die hande is Esau se hande.

23 Maar hy het hom nie geëien nie, omdat sy hande harig was soos sy broer Esau se hande; en hy het hom geseën.

24 Hy het naamlik gevra: Is jy waarlik my seun Esau? En hy het geantwoord: Ja.

25 Toe sê hy: Bring dit vir my nader, dat ek van die wildsvleis van my seun kan eet, sodat my siel jou kan seën. En hy het dit vir hom nader gebring, en hy het geëet. Hy het vir hom ook wyn gebring, en hy het gedrink.

26 Daarop sê sy vader Isak vir hom: Kom tog nader en soen my, my seun!

27 En hy het nader gekom en hom gesoen. Toe ruik hy die geur van sy klere, en hy seën hom en sê: Kyk, die geur van my seun is soos die geur van die veld wat die HERE geseënhet.

28 En mag God jou gee van die dou van die hemel en van die vet grond van die aarde en oorvloed van koring en mos.

29 Volke sal jou dien, en nasies voor jou neerbuig. Wees 'n heerser oor jou broers, en die seuns van jou moeder moet hulle voor jou neerbuig. Vervloek is hulle wat jou vloek, en geseënd hulle wat jou seën.

30 Maar toe Isak Jakob klaar geseënhet en Jakob nog skaars van sy vader Isak af weggegaan het, kom sy broer Esau van die jag af,

31 en hy maak ook 'n lekker ete en bring dit na sy vader en sê aan sy vader: Laat my vader hom oprig en eet van die wildsvleis van sy seun, sodat u siel my kan seën.

32 En sy vader Isak vra hom: Wie is jy? En hy antwoord: Ek is u seun Esau, u eersgeborene.

33 Toe skrik Isak geweldig en sê: Wie is dit dan wat wild gejag en vir my gebring het? En ek het van alles geëet voordat jy gekom het, en hom geseën-- ook sal hy geseënd bly!

34 Toe Esau die woorde van sy vader hoor, skreeu hy met 'n baie groot en bitter geroep, en hy sê vir sy vader: Seën my ook, my vader!

35 En hy antwoord: Jou broer het gekom met bedrog en jou seën weggeneem.

36 Daarop sê hy: Sou hulle hom Jakob noem, omdat hy my nou twee keer onderkruip het? My eersgeboortereg het hy geneem, en daar het hy nou my seën geneem! Verder vra hy: Het u vir my geen seën oorgehou nie?

37 Toe antwoord Isak en sê vir Esau: Kyk, ek het hom as heerser oor jou gestel en aan hom al sy broers as dienaars gegee; en ek het hom met koring en mos versorg. Wat kan ek dan nou vir jou doen, my seun?

38 Daarop het Esau aan sy vader gevra: Het u net een seën, my vader? Seën my ook, my vader! En Esau het sy stem verhef en geween.

39 Toe antwoord sy vader Isak en sê vir hom: Kyk, ver van die vet grond van die aarde sal jou woonplek wees, en ver van die dou van die hemel daarbo.

40 En van jou swaard sal jy lewe, en jou broer sal jy dien. Maar as jy jou kragte inspan, sal jy sy juk van jou nek afruk.

41 En Esau was Jakob vyandig gesind vanweë die seën waarmee sy vader hom geseënhet, en Esau het in sy hart gedink: Die dae van die rou oor my vader is naby; dan sal ek my broer Jakob doodmaak.

42 Maar toe hulle aan Rebekka die woorde van Esau, haar oudste seun, vertel, stuur sy en laat Jakob, haar jongste seun, roep en sê vir hom: Kyk, jou broer Esau sal hom op jou wreek deur jou dood te maak.

43 My seun, luister dan nou na my: maak jou klaar, vlug tog na Haran, na my broer Laban,

44 en bly 'n rukkie by hom tot die woede van jou broer bedaar,

45 tot die toorn van jou broer teen jou bedaar en hy vergeet het wat jy hom aangedoen het. Dan sal ek stuur en jou daar laat haal. Waarom moet ek julle altwee op een dag verloor?

46 Verder sê Rebekka vir Isak: Ek is moeg vir my lewe vanweë die dogters van Het. As Jakob 'n vrou neem uit die dogters van Het, soos hulle is, uit die dogters van die land -- waarvoor lewe ek dan?