Genesis 27:28-46

28May God give you of athe dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and bplenty of grain and wine.
29Let peoples serve you,
and nations cbow down to you.
dBe lord over your brothers,
and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
eCursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”
30As 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. 31He also prepared delicious 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.” 32His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” 33Then Isaac trembled very 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.” 34As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, fhe cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” 35But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36Esau said, g“Is he not rightly named Jacob?
 Jacob means He takes by the heel, or He cheats
For he has cheated me these two times. iHe took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
37Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, jI have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and kwith grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” 38Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And lEsau lifted up his voice and wept.

39Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:

Behold, maway from
Or  Behold, of
the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
and away from
Or  and of
the dew of heaven on high.
40By your sword you shall live,
and you pshall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
qyou shall break his yoke from your neck.”
41Now Esau rhated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, s“The days of mourning for my father are approaching; tthen I will kill my brother Jacob.” 42But 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 about you by planning to kill you. 43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran 44and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fury turns away 45until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”

46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, u“I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.
Hebrew daughters of Heth
wIf Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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