1. Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were cloudy, and so he was not able to see. And he called his elder son Esau, and he said to him, "My son?" And he responded, "Here I am."
2. His father said to him: "You see that I am old, and I do not know the day of my death.
3. Take your weapons, the quiver and the bow, and go out. And when you have taken something by hunting,
4. make from it a small meal for me, just as you know I like, and bring it, so that I may eat and my soul may bless you before I die."
5. And when Rebekah had heard this, and he had gone out into the field to fulfill his father's order,
6. she said to her son Jacob: "I heard your father speaking with your brother Esau, and saying to him,
7. 'Bring to me from your hunting, and make me foods, so that I may eat and bless you in the sight of the Lord before I die.'