31. Then he too prepared a dish, and bringing it to his father, he said, “Let my father sit up and eat some of his son’s game, that you may then give me your blessing.”
32. His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn son, Esau.”
33. Isaac trembled greatly. “Who was it, then,” he asked, “that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all just before you came, and I blessed him. Now he is blessed!”
34. As he heard his father’s words, Esau burst into loud, bitter sobbing and said, “Father, bless me too!”
35. When Isaac said, “Your brother came here by a ruse and carried off your blessing,”
36. Esau exclaimed, “He is well named Jacob, is he not! He has supplanted me twice! First he took away my right as firstborn, and now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not saved a blessing for me?”
37. Isaac replied to Esau: “I have already appointed him your master, and I have assigned to him all his kindred as his servants; besides, I have sustained him with grain and wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”
38. But Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” and Esau wept aloud.
39. His father Isaac said in response:“See, far from the fertile earthwill be your dwelling;far from the dew of the heavens above!
40. By your sword you will live,and your brother you will serve;But when you become restless,you will throw off his yoke from your neck.”
41. Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. Esau said to himself, “Let the time of mourning for my father come, so that I may kill my brother Jacob.”
42. When Rebekah got news of what her older son Esau had in mind, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him: “Listen! Your brother Esau intends to get his revenge by killing you.
43. So now, my son, obey me: flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,
44. and stay with him a while until your brother’s fury subsides—
45. until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back. Why should I lose both of you in a single day?”
46. Rebekah said to Isaac: “I am disgusted with life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob also should marry a Hittite woman, a native of the land, like these women, why should I live?”