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When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see ,
he called Esau his older son ,
and said to him , "
My son ";
and he answered , "
Here I am ."
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He said , "
Behold ,
I am old ;
I do not know the day of my death .
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Now then ,
take your weapons ,
your quiver and your bow ,
and go out to the field ,
and hunt game for me ,
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and prepare for me savory food ,
such as I love ,
and bring it to me that I may eat ;
that I may bless you before I die ."
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Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau .
So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it ,
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob , "
I heard your father speak to your brother Esau ,
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Bring me game ,
and prepare for me savory food ,
that I may eat it ,
and bless you before the LORD before I die .'
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Now therefore ,
my son ,
obey my word as I command you .
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Go to the flock ,
and fetch me two good kids ,
that I may prepare from them savory food for your father ,
such as he loves ;
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and you shall bring it to your father to eat ,
so that he may bless you before he dies ."
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But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother , "
Behold ,
my brother Esau is a hairy man ,
and I am a smooth man .
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Perhaps my father will feel me ,
and I shall seem to be mocking him ,
and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing ."
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His mother said to him , "
Upon me be your curse ,
my son ;
only obey my word ,
and go ,
fetch them to me ."
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So he went and took them and brought them to his mother ;
and his mother prepared savory food ,
such as his father loved .
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Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son ,
which were with her in the house ,
and put them on Jacob her younger son ;
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and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands and upon the smooth part of his neck ;
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and 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 in 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 first-born .
I have done as you told me ;
now sit up and eat of my game ,
that you 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 ?"
He answered , "
Because the LORD your God granted me success ."
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Then Isaac said to Jacob , "
Come near ,
that I may feel you ,
my son ,
to know whether you are really my son Esau or not ."
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So Jacob went near to Isaac his father ,
who 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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He said , "
Are you really my son Esau ?"
He answered , "
I am ."
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Then he said , "
Bring it to me ,
that I may eat of my son '
s game and bless you ."
So he brought it 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 and kiss me ,
my son ."
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So he came near and kissed him ;
and he smelled the smell of his garments ,
and blessed him ,
and said , "
See ,
the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed !
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May God give you of the dew of heaven ,
and 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 lord over your brothers ,
and may your mother '
s sons bow down to you .
Cursed be every one who curses you ,
and blessed be every one who blesses you !"
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As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob ,
when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father ,
Esau his brother came in from his hunting .
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He also prepared savory food ,
and brought it to his father .
And he said to his father , "
Let my father arise ,
and eat of his son '
s game ,
that you may bless me ."
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His father Isaac said to him , "
Who are you ?"
He answered , "
I am your son ,
your first-born ,
Esau ."
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Then Isaac trembled violently ,
and said , "
Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me ,
and I ate it all before you came ,
and I have blessed him ?--
yes ,
and he shall be blessed ."
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When Esau heard the words of his father ,
he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry ,
and said to his father , "
Bless me ,
even me also ,
O my father !"
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But he said , "
Your brother came with guile ,
and he has taken away your blessing ."
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Esau said , "
Is he not 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 ."
Then he said , "
Have you not reserved a blessing for me ?"
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Isaac answered Esau , "
Behold ,
I have made him your lord ,
and all his brothers I have given to him for servants ,
and with grain and wine I have sustained him .
What then can I do for you ,
my son ?"
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Esau said to his father , "
Have you but one blessing ,
my father ?
Bless me ,
even me also ,
O my father ."
And Esau lifted up his voice and wept .
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Then Isaac his father answered him : "
Behold ,
away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be ,
and away from the dew of heaven on high .
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By your sword you shall live ,
and you shall serve your brother ;
but when you break loose you shall break his yoke from your neck ."
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Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him ,
and Esau said to himself , "
The days of mourning for my father are approaching ;
then I will kill my brother Jacob ."
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But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah ;
so she sent and called Jacob her younger son ,
and said to him , "
Behold ,
your brother Esau comforts himself by planning to kill you .
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Now therefore ,
my son ,
obey my voice ;
arise ,
flee to Laban my brother in Haran ,
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and stay with him a while ,
until your brother '
s fury turns away ;
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until your brother '
s anger turns away ,
and he forgets what you have done to him ;
then I will send ,
and fetch you from there .
Why should I be bereft of you both in one day ?"
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac , "
I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women .
If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these ,
one of the women 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 , "
You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women .
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Arise ,
go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethu '
el your mother '
s father ;
and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother '
s brother .
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God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you ,
that you may become a company of peoples .
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May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you ,
that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham !"
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Thus Isaac sent Jacob away ;
and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban ,
the son of Bethu '
el the Aramean ,
the brother of Rebekah ,
Jacob '
s and Esau '
s mother .
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Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there ,
and that as he blessed him he charged him , "
You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women ,"
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram .
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So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father ,
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Esau went to Ish '
mael and took to wife ,
besides the wives he had ,
Ma '
halath the daughter of Ish '
mael Abraham '
s son ,
the sister of Neba '
ioth .
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Jacob left Beer-sheba ,
and went toward Haran .
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And he came to a certain place ,
and stayed there that night ,
because the sun had set .
Taking one of the stones of the place ,
he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep .
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And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth ,
and the top of it reached to heaven ;
and behold ,
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 ,
the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac ;
the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants ;
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and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth ,
and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south ;
and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves .
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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 that of which 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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So Jacob rose early in the morning ,
and he took the stone which he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it .
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He called the name of that place Bethel ;
but the name of the city was Luz at the first .
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Then Jacob made a vow ,
saying , "
If God will be with me ,
and will keep me in this way that I go ,
and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear ,
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so that I come again 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 up for a pillar ,
shall be God '
s house ;
and of all that thou givest me I will give the tenth to thee ."
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Then Jacob went on his journey ,
and came to the land of the people of the east .