29. Nations will be your servantsand bow down to you.You will rule over your brothers,and they will kneelat your feet.Anyone who curses youwill be cursed;anyone who blesses youwill be blessed.”
30. Straight after Isaac had given Jacob his blessing and Jacob had gone, Esau came back from hunting.
31. He cooked the tasty food, brought it to his father, and said, “Father, please sit up and eat the meat I have brought you, so you can give me your blessing.”
32. “Who are you?” Isaac asked.“I am Esau, your firstborn son.”
33. Isaac started trembling and said, “Then who brought me some wild meat just before you came in? I ate it and gave him a blessing that cannot be taken back.”
34. Esau cried loudly and begged, “Father, give me a blessing too!”
35. Isaac answered, “Your brother tricked me and stole your blessing.”
36. Esau replied, “My brother deserves the name Jacob, because he has already cheated me twice. The first time he cheated me out of my rights as the firstborn son, and now he has cheated me out of my blessing.” Then Esau asked his father, “Don't you still have any blessing left for me?”