³⁰ Then he made a feast for them and they ate and drank. ³¹ Then they got up early in the morning and made a pledge, each to his brother. Then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in shalom. ³² Now it happened that on that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they dug, and said to him, “We’ve found water.” ³³ So he called it Pledge. That is why the city’s name is Beer-sheba to this day.

³⁴ When Esau was 40 years old, he took as wife Judith the daughter of Be-eri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ But they caused a bitterness of spirit for Isaac and Rebekah.

Jacob Tricks Isaac

27 Now it was when Isaac grew old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son.”

“Here I am,” he said to him.

² “Look, I’m old,” he said. “I don’t know the day of my death. ³ So now, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt me some game. ⁴ Then prepare me a delicious meal that I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”

⁵ Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac was speaking to Esau his son. So while Esau went to the field to hunt game to bring in, ⁶ Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau saying, ⁷ ‘Bring me some game and prepare me a delicious meal that I may eat and bless you in Adonai’s presence before my death.’ ⁸ So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I am commanding you. ⁹ Go now to the flock and bring me two good young goats from there, so that I may prepare them as a delicious meal for your father—that he’ll love. ¹⁰ Then you’ll bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

¹¹ But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I’m a smooth man. ¹² Perhaps my father will touch me, and he’ll take me for a mocker, and I’ll bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

¹³ Then his mother said to him, “Let your curse fall on me, my son. Just listen to me, and go, get them for me.”

¹⁴ So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a delicious meal that his father would love. ¹⁵ Rebekah also took her elder son Esau’s favorite clothes that were with her in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob, ¹⁶ along with the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the hairless part of his neck. ¹⁷ She put the delicious meal and the bread that she had prepared in the hand of Jacob her son.

¹⁸ Then he came to his father and said, “My father.”

And he said, “I’m here. Who are you, my son?”

¹⁹ Then Jacob said to his father, “I’m your firstborn, Esau. I’ve done just what you said to me. Sit up, please, and eat some of my wild game so that your soul may bless me.”

²⁰ Then Isaac said to his son, “How in the world were you able to find it so quickly, my son?”

He said, “Because Adonai your God made it happen for me.”

²¹ Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can feel you my son—whether or not you really are my son Esau.”

²² So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac, and he felt him. Then he said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice but the hands are Esau’s hands.” ²³ He did not recognize him because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. So he blessed him. ²⁴ But he said, “Are you really my son Esau?”

So he said, “I am.”

²⁵ Then he said, “Bring it to me and I’ll eat some of my son’s wild game, so that my soul may bless you.” So he brought it to him and he ate, and he brought him wine and he drank.

²⁶ Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come closer and kiss me my son.” ²⁷ So he came closer and kissed him. When he smelled the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,