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Now it came to pass ,
when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see ,
that he called Esau his older son and said to him , "
My son ."
And he answered him , "
Here I am ."
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Then he said , "
Behold now ,
I am old .
I do not know the day of my death .
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Now therefore ,
please take your weapons ,
your quiver and your bow ,
and go out to the field and hunt game for me .
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And make me savory food ,
such as I love ,
and bring it to me that I may eat ,
that my soul may bless you before I die ."
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Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son .
And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it .
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So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son ,
saying , "
Indeed I heard your father speak to Esau your brother ,
saying ,
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Bring me game and make savory food for me ,
that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death .'
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Now therefore ,
my son ,
obey my voice according to what I command you .
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Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats ,
and I will make savory food from them for your father ,
such as he loves .
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Then you shall take it to your father ,
that he may eat it ,
and that he may bless you before his death ."
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And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother , "
Look ,
Esau my brother is a hairy man ,
and I am a smooth-skinned man .
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Perhaps my father will feel me ,
and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him ;
and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing ."
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But his mother said to him , "
Let your curse be on me ,
my son ;
only obey my voice ,
and go ,
get them for me ."
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And he went and got them and brought them to his mother ,
and his mother made savory food ,
such as his father loved .
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Then Rebekah took the choice clothes of her elder son Esau ,
which were with her in the house ,
and put them on Jacob her younger son .
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And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck .
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Then she gave the savory food and the bread ,
which she had prepared ,
into the hand of her son Jacob .
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So he went to his father and said , "
My father ."
And he said , "
Here I am .
Who are you ,
my son ?"
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Jacob said to his father , "
I am Esau your firstborn ;
I have done just as you told me ;
please arise ,
sit and eat of my game ,
that your soul may bless me ."
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But 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 ."
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Isaac said to Jacob , "
Please come near ,
that I may feel you ,
my son ,
whether you are really my son Esau or not ."
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So Jacob went near to Isaac his father ,
and he felt him and said , "
The voice is Jacob '
s voice ,
but the hands are the hands of Esau ."
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And he did not recognize him ,
because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau '
s hands ;
so he blessed him .
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Then he said , "
Are you really my son Esau ?"
He said , "
I am ."
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He said , "
Bring it near to me ,
and I will eat of my son '
s game ,
so that my soul may bless you ."
So he brought it near to him ,
and he ate ;
and he brought him wine ,
and he drank .
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Then his father Isaac said to him , "
Come near now and kiss me ,
my son ."
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And he came near and kissed him ;
and he smelled the smell of his clothing ,
and blessed him and said : "
Surely ,
the smell of my son Is like the smell of a field Which the LORD has blessed .
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Therefore may God give you Of the dew of heaven ,
Of the fatness of the earth ,
And plenty of grain and wine .
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Let peoples serve you ,
And nations bow down to you .
Be master over your brethren ,
And let your mother '
s sons bow down to you .
Cursed be everyone who curses you ,
And blessed be those who bless you !"
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Now it happened ,
as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob ,
and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father ,
that Esau his brother came in from his hunting .
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He also had made savory food ,
and brought it to his father ,
and said to his father , "
Let my father arise and eat of his son '
s game ,
that your soul may bless me ."
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And his father Isaac said to him , "
Who are you ?"
So he said , "
I am your son ,
your firstborn ,
Esau ."
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Then Isaac trembled exceedingly ,
and said , "
Who ?
Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me ?
I ate all of it before you came ,
and I have blessed him--and indeed he shall be blessed ."
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When Esau heard the words of his father ,
he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry ,
and said to his father , "
Bless me--me also ,
O my father !"
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But he said , "
Your brother came with deceit and has taken away your blessing ."
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And Esau said , "
Is he not rightly named Jacob ?
For he has supplanted me these two times .
He took away my birthright ,
and now look ,
he has taken away my blessing !"
And he said , "
Have you not reserved a blessing for me ?"
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Then Isaac answered and said to Esau , "
Indeed I have made him your master ,
and all his brethren I have given to him as servants ;
with grain and wine I have sustained him .
What shall I do now for you ,
my son ?"
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And Esau said to his father , "
Have you only one blessing ,
my father ?
Bless me--me also ,
O my father !"
And Esau lifted up his voice and wept .
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Then Isaac his father answered and said to him : "
Behold ,
your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth ,
And of the dew of heaven from above .
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By your sword you shall live ,
And you shall serve your brother ;
And it shall come to pass ,
when you become restless ,
That you shall break his yoke from your neck ."
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So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him ,
and Esau said in his heart , "
The days of mourning for my father are at hand ;
then I will kill my brother Jacob ."
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And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah .
So she sent and called Jacob her younger son ,
and said to him , "
Surely your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you .
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Now therefore ,
my son ,
obey my voice :
arise ,
flee to my brother Laban in Haran .
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And stay with him a few days ,
until your brother '
s fury turns away ,
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until your brother '
s anger turns away from you ,
and he forgets what you have done to him ;
then I will send and bring you from there .
Why should I be bereaved also of you both in one day ?"
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And 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 ,
like these who are the daughters of the land ,
what good will my life be to me ?"
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Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him ,
and charged him ,
and said to him : "
You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan .
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Arise ,
go to Padan Aram ,
to the house of Bethuel your mother '
s father ;
and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother '
s brother .
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May God Almighty bless you ,
And make you fruitful and multiply you ,
That you may be an assembly of peoples ;
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And give you the blessing of Abraham ,
To you and your descendants with you ,
That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger ,
Which God gave to Abraham ."
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So Isaac sent Jacob away ,
and he went to Padan Aram ,
to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian ,
the brother of Rebekah ,
the mother of Jacob and Esau .
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Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there ,
and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge ,
saying , "
You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan ,"
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram .
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Also Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please his father Isaac .
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So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael ,
Abraham '
s son ,
the sister of Nebajoth ,
to be his wife in addition to the wives he had .
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Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran .
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So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night ,
because the sun had set .
And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head ,
and he lay down in that place to sleep .
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Then he dreamed ,
and behold ,
a ladder was set up on the earth ,
and its top reached to heaven ;
and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it .
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And behold ,
the LORD stood above it and said : "
I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac ;
the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants .
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Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth ;
you shall spread abroad to the west and the east ,
to the north and the south ;
and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed .
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Behold ,
I am with you and will keep you wherever you go ,
and will bring you back to this land ;
for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you ."
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Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said , "
Surely the LORD is in this place ,
and I did not know it ."
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And he was afraid and said , "
How awesome is this place !
This is none other than the house of God ,
and this is the gate of heaven !"
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Then Jacob rose early in the morning ,
and took the stone that he had put at his head ,
set it up as a pillar ,
and poured oil on top of it .
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And he called the name of that place Bethel ;
but the name of that city had been Luz previously .
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Then Jacob made a vow ,
saying , "
If God will be with me ,
and keep me in this way that I am going ,
and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on ,
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so that I come back to my father '
s house in peace ,
then the LORD shall be my God .
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And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God '
s house ,
and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You ."
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So Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the East .