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    Genesis 27

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    Isaac hears Jacob’s voice, feels goat skins, smells Esau’s clothes, and blesses him anyway: an identification trial conducted by ear, hand, and nose, with dinner in the middle.

    A blessing prepared in the kitchenvv. 1–17

    Isaac, old and unable to see, sends Esau hunting for the game he loves, promising a blessing before he dies. Rebekah hears this and promptly sets Jacob to work instead: two goats, a familiar dish, Esau’s clothes, and goat skins on the smooth places. Jacob worries about being exposed as a deceiver; Rebekah answers, “Your curse be on me,” and carries on.

    The voice, the hands, and the smellvv. 18–29

    Jacob enters declaring himself Esau, and when Isaac asks how the game arrived so quickly, he gives the LORD as his alibi. Isaac’s suspicion becomes a remarkably thorough sensory examination: the voice sounds like Jacob, the hands feel like Esau, and the clothes smell like a blessed field. The hands win the argument, dinner is eaten, wine is drunk, a kiss is given, and the blessing follows.

    One blessing, and the trouble after itvv. 30–46

    Esau returns with his own meal just after Jacob has left, and the household’s arrangement collapses at once. Isaac trembles violently; Esau cries for a blessing; Isaac says the blessing has been taken deceitfully. Esau receives a harsher word, then plots Jacob’s death. Rebekah tells Jacob to flee to Laban in Haran, but presents the matter to Isaac as weariness over Hittite wives—the danger is spoken to Jacob, while the domestic complaint is spoken to Isaac.

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    1. Gen 27:1When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.

    2. Gen 27:2“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

    3. Gen 27:3Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.

    4. Gen 27:4Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

    5. Gen 27:5Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

    6. Gen 27:6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

    7. Gen 27:7‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’

    8. Gen 27:8Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

    9. Gen 27:9Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

    10. Gen 27:10Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

    11. Gen 27:11Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

    12. Gen 27:12What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

    13. Gen 27:13His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

    14. Gen 27:14So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

    15. Gen 27:15And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

    16. Gen 27:16She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

    17. Gen 27:17Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

    18. Gen 27:18So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

    19. Gen 27:19Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

    20. Gen 27:20But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

    21. Gen 27:21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

    22. Gen 27:22So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

    23. Gen 27:23Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

    24. Gen 27:24Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

    25. Gen 27:25“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

    26. Gen 27:26Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

    27. Gen 27:27So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

    28. Gen 27:28May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

    29. Gen 27:29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

    30. Gen 27:30As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

    31. Gen 27:31He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

    32. Gen 27:32But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.

    33. Gen 27:33Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”

    34. Gen 27:34When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”

    35. Gen 27:35But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

    36. Gen 27:36So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

    37. Gen 27:37But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

    38. Gen 27:38Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

    39. Gen 27:39His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.

    40. Gen 27:40You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

    41. Gen 27:41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

    42. Gen 27:42When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

    43. Gen 27:43So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

    44. Gen 27:44Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—

    45. Gen 27:45until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

    46. Gen 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

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    • 28Deuteronomy 33:28So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
    • 29Numbers 24:9He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
    • 29Genesis 12:3I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
    • 4Hebrews 11:20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
    • 28Deuteronomy 33:13Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
    • 27Hebrews 6:7For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
    • 29Isaiah 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
    • 11 Samuel 3:2And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.
    • 1Genesis 48:10Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
    • 15Genesis 27:27So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
    • 27Psalms 65:10You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
    • 39Genesis 27:28May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.
    • 402 Kings 8:20–22In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.
    • 40Genesis 25:23and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
    • 4Genesis 48:9Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”
    • 11Genesis 25:25The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

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