5And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau, his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 6And Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “I heard your father say to Esau your brother, 7“Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death”. 8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice regarding what I command you. 9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves: 10And you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death.” 11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: 12My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.” 13And his mother said to him, “Upon me be your curse, my son. Just obey my voice, and go fetch me them.” 14And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 15And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob: 16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: 17And she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18And he came to his father, and said, “My father”: and he said, “Here am I; who are you, my son?” 19And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn; I have done as you asked me: arise, I pray you, sit and eat of my venison, that you may bless me.” 20And Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because the LORD your God brought it to me.” 21And Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, I pray you, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are truly my son Esau or not”. 22And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and Isaac felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. 24And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am”. 25And he said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that I may bless you”. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26And his Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son”. 27And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed: 28Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn 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.”

30And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone from the presence of Isaac, Esau, his brother, came in from his hunting. 31And he also had made savory meat, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that you may bless me”. 32And Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau”. 33And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, “Who? Where is he that has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yea, and he shall be blessed.” 34And when Esau heard these 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”. 35And he said, “Your brother came with subtlety, and has taken away your blessing”. 36And he said, “Is not he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing”. And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 37And Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now for you, my son?” 38And Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau wept aloud. 39And Isaac answered him, “Behold, your dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; 40And by your sword shall you live, and shall serve your brother; and when you shall have the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.”

41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I kill my brother Jacob.” 42And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau, consoles himself, purposing to kill you. 43Now obey my voice; and arise, flee to Laban my brother at Haran; 44And stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury cools; 45Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him: then I will send, and fetch you from there: why should I be deprived of you both in one day?”

46And 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 who are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?”