Genesis 27
1 When 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.
senuit autem Isaac et caligaverunt oculi eius et videre non poterat vocavitque Esau filium suum maiorem et dixit ei fili mi qui respondit adsum
2 “Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
cui pater vides inquit quod senuerim et ignorem diem mortis meae
3 Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.
sume arma tua faretram et arcum et egredere foras cumque venatu aliquid adprehenderis
4 Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
fac mihi inde pulmentum sicut velle me nosti et adfer ut comedam et benedicat tibi anima mea antequam moriar
5 Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,
quod cum audisset Rebecca et ille abisset in agrum ut iussionem patris expleret
6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
dixit filio suo Iacob audivi patrem tuum loquentem cum Esau fratre tuo et dicentem ei
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.’
adfer mihi venationem tuam et fac cibos ut comedam et benedicam tibi coram Domino antequam moriar
8 Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.
nunc ergo fili mi adquiesce consiliis meis
9 Go 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.
et pergens ad gregem adfer mihi duos hedos optimos ut faciam ex eis escas patri tuo quibus libenter vescitur
10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
quas cum intuleris et comederit benedicat tibi priusquam moriatur
11 Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
cui ille respondit nosti quod Esau frater meus homo pilosus sit et ego lenis
12 What 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.”
si adtractaverit me pater meus et senserit timeo ne putet sibi voluisse inludere et inducat super me maledictionem pro benedictione
13 His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
ad quem mater in me sit ait ista maledictio fili mi tantum audi vocem meam et perge adferque quae dixi
14 So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
abiit et adtulit deditque matri paravit illa cibos sicut noverat velle patrem illius
15 And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
et vestibus Esau valde bonis quas apud se habebat domi induit eum
16 She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
pelliculasque hedorum circumdedit manibus et colli nuda protexit
17 Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
dedit pulmentum et panes quos coxerat tradidit
18 So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
quibus inlatis dixit pater mi et ille respondit audio quis tu es fili mi
19 Jacob 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.”
dixitque Iacob ego sum Esau primogenitus tuus feci sicut praecepisti mihi surge sede et comede de venatione mea ut benedicat mihi anima tua
20 But 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.
rursum Isaac ad filium suum quomodo inquit tam cito invenire potuisti fili mi qui respondit voluntatis Dei fuit ut cito mihi occurreret quod volebam
21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
dixitque Isaac accede huc ut tangam te fili mi et probem utrum tu sis filius meus Esau an non
22 So 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.”
accessit ille ad patrem et palpato eo dixit Isaac vox quidem vox Iacob est sed manus manus sunt Esau
23 Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
et non cognovit eum quia pilosae manus similitudinem maioris expresserant benedicens ergo illi
24 Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
ait tu es filius meus Esau respondit ego sum
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.
at ille offer inquit mihi cibos de venatione tua fili mi ut benedicat tibi anima mea quos cum oblatos comedisset obtulit ei etiam vinum quo hausto
26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
dixit ad eum accede ad me et da mihi osculum fili mi
27 So 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.
accessit et osculatus est eum statimque ut sensit vestimentorum illius flagrantiam benedicens ait ecce odor filii mei sicut odor agri cui benedixit Dominus
28 May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
det tibi Deus de rore caeli et de pinguedine terrae abundantiam frumenti et vini
29 May 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.”
et serviant tibi populi et adorent te tribus esto dominus fratrum tuorum et incurventur ante te filii matris tuae qui maledixerit tibi sit maledictus et qui benedixerit benedictionibus repleatur
30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
vix Isaac sermonem impleverat et egresso Iacob foras venit Esau
31 He 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.”
coctosque de venatione cibos intulit patri dicens surge pater mi et comede de venatione filii tui ut benedicat mihi anima tua
32 But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
dixitque illi Isaac quis enim es tu qui respondit ego sum primogenitus filius tuus Esau
33 Isaac 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!”
expavit Isaac stupore vehementi et ultra quam credi potest admirans ait quis igitur ille est qui dudum captam venationem adtulit mihi et comedi ex omnibus priusquam tu venires benedixique ei et erit benedictus
34 When 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!”
auditis Esau sermonibus patris inrugiit clamore magno et consternatus ait benedic etiam mihi pater mi
35 But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
qui ait venit germanus tuus fraudulenter et accepit benedictionem tuam
36 So 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?”
at ille subiunxit iuste vocatum est nomen eius Iacob subplantavit enim me en altera vice primogenita mea ante tulit et nunc secundo subripuit benedictionem meam rursumque ad patrem numquid non reservasti ait et mihi benedictionem
37 But 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?”
respondit Isaac dominum tuum illum constitui et omnes fratres eius servituti illius subiugavi frumento et vino stabilivi eum tibi post haec fili mi ultra quid faciam
38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
cui Esau num unam inquit tantum benedictionem habes pater mihi quoque obsecro ut benedicas cumque heiulatu magno fleret
39 His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
motus Isaac dixit ad eum in pinguedine terrae et in rore caeli desuper
40 You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
erit benedictio tua vives gladio et fratri tuo servies tempusque veniet cum excutias et solvas iugum eius de cervicibus tuis
41 Esau 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.”
oderat ergo semper Esau Iacob pro benedictione qua benedixerat ei pater dixitque in corde suo veniant dies luctus patris mei ut occidam Iacob fratrem meum
42 When 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.
nuntiata sunt haec Rebeccae quae mittens et vocans Iacob filium suum dixit ad eum ecce Esau frater tuus minatur ut occidat te
43 So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
nunc ergo fili audi vocem meam et consurgens fuge ad Laban fratrem meum in Haran
44 Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
habitabisque cum eo dies paucos donec requiescat furor fratris tui
45 until 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?”
et cesset indignatio eius obliviscaturque eorum quae fecisti in eum postea mittam et adducam te inde huc cur utroque orbabor filio in una die
46 Then 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?”
dixit quoque Rebecca ad Isaac taedet me vitae meae propter filias Heth si acceperit Iacob uxorem de stirpe huius terrae nolo vivere
