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

Gen 27:3 Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

Gen 27:4 and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die."

Gen 27:5 Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring home,

Gen 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying,

Gen 27:7 'Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the Lord before my death.'

Gen 27:8 Now therefore, my son, listen to me as I command you.

Gen 27:9 Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.

Gen 27:10 Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

Gen 27:11 Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.

Gen 27:12 Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing."

Gen 27:13 But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."

Gen 27:14 So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved.

Gen 27:15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

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

Gen 27:17 She also gave the savory food and the bread, which she had made, to her son Jacob.

Gen 27:18 Then he came to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

Gen 27:19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you may bless me."

Gen 27:20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the Lord your God caused it to happen to me."

Gen 27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come close, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

Gen 27:22 So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

Gen 27:23 He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

Gen 27:24 And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."

Gen 27:25 So he said, "Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son's game, that I may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.

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

Gen 27:27 So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son Is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed;

Gen 27:28 Now may God give you of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine;

Gen 27:29 May peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, And may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you."

Gen 27:30 Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Gen 27:31 Then he also made savory 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."

Gen 27:32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

Gen 27:33 Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."

Gen 27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"

Gen 27:35 And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing."

Gen 27:36 Then he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

Gen 27:37 But Isaac replied to Esau, "Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?"

Gen 27:38 Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

Gen 27:39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling, And away from the dew of heaven from above.

Gen 27:40 "By your sword you shall live, And your brother you shall serve; But it shall come about when you become restless, That you will break his yoke from your neck."

Gen 27:41 So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

Gen 27:42 Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, "Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

Gen 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!

Gen 27:44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury subsides,

Gen 27:45 until your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

Gen 27:46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

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Gen 28:1 So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Gen 28:2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

Gen 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Gen 28:4 May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham."

Gen 28:5 Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Gen 28:6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"

Gen 28:7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

Gen 28:8 So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac;

Gen 28:9 and Esau went to Ishmael, and married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.

Gen 28:10 Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

Gen 28:11 He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

Gen 28:12 He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Gen 28:13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants.

Gen 28:14 Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Gen 28:15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Gen 28:16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it."

Gen 28:17 He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

Gen 28:18 So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

Gen 28:19 He called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.

Gen 28:20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear,

Gen 28:21 and I return to my father's house in safety, then the Lord will be my God.

Gen 28:22 This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You."

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Gen 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east.

Gen 29:2 He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.

Gen 29:3 When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

Gen 29:4 Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran."

Gen 29:5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him."

Gen 29:6 And he said to them, "Is it well with him?" And they said, "It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep."

Gen 29:7 He said, "Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them."

Gen 29:8 But they said, "We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."

Gen 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Gen 29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

Gen 29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted his voice and wept.

Gen 29:12 Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.

Gen 29:13 So when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he related to Laban all these things.

Gen 29:14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him a month.

Gen 29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"

Gen 29:16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Gen 29:17 And Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of form and face.

Gen 29:18 Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

Gen 29:19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me."

Gen 29:20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

Gen 29:21 Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her."

Gen 29:22 Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.

Gen 29:23 Now in the evening he took his daughter Leah, and brought her to him; and Jacob went in to her.

Gen 29:24 Laban also gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maid.

Gen 29:25 So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?"

Gen 29:26 But Laban said, "It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.

Gen 29:27 Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years."

Gen 29:28 Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Gen 29:29 Laban also gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid.

Gen 29:30 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.

Gen 29:31 Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Gen 29:32 Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me."

Gen 29:33 Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." So she named him Simeon.

Gen 29:34 She conceived again and bore a son and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.

Gen 29:35 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.