Genesis 27
1 Isaac was old and going blind. He called for Esau, his oldest son, and said, “My son.” “I'm here,” 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 “I'm old now,” said Isaac, “I may die soon, who knows?
cui pater vides inquit quod senuerim et ignorem diem mortis meae
3 So please take your bow and arrows and go hunting in the countryside for some meat for me.
sume arma tua faretram et arcum et egredere foras cumque venatu aliquid adprehenderis
4 Make me that tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so I can 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 Rebekah heard what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau left to go hunting in the countryside for wild game,
quod cum audisset Rebecca et ille abisset in agrum ut iussionem patris expleret
6 Rebekah told her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father tell your brother,
dixit filio suo Iacob audivi patrem tuum loquentem cum Esau fratre tuo et dicentem ei
7 ‘Get me some wild game and make me some tasty food so I can eat it and then 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 then, my son, listen to me and do exactly what I tell you.
nunc ergo fili mi adquiesce consiliis meis
9 Go to the flock and bring me two nice young goats. I'll cook them and make the tasty food your father loves.
et pergens ad gregem adfer mihi duos hedos optimos ut faciam ex eis escas patri tuo quibus libenter vescitur
10 Then you take it to your father to eat, so he can bless you in the presence of the Lord before he dies.”
quas cum intuleris et comederit benedicat tibi priusquam moriatur
11 “But listen,” Jacob replied to his mother Rebekah, “my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a smooth man.
cui ille respondit nosti quod Esau frater meus homo pilosus sit et ego lenis
12 Maybe my father will notice when he touches me. Then it will look like I'm deceiving him and I'll bring a curse down on myself instead of a blessing.”
si adtractaverit me pater meus et senserit timeo ne putet sibi voluisse inludere et inducat super me maledictionem pro benedictione
13 “Let the curse fall on me, my son,” his mother replied. “Just do what I tell you. Go and get the young goats 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 them and took them to his mother, and she made some tasty food, the way his father loved.
abiit et adtulit deditque matri paravit illa cibos sicut noverat velle patrem illius
15 Then Rebekah went and got her older son Esau's best clothes that she had at home and put them on Jacob her younger son.
et vestibus Esau valde bonis quas apud se habebat domi induit eum
16 She put the goatskins 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 the bread she'd made.
dedit pulmentum et panes quos coxerat tradidit
18 He went in to see his father, and called out, “My father, I'm here.” “Which son are you?” Isaac asked.
quibus inlatis dixit pater mi et ille respondit audio quis tu es fili mi
19 “It's me Esau, your firstborn son,” Jacob told his father. “I did what you told me. So please sit up and eat some of my wild game meat so you can 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 “How did you find an animal so fast, my son?” Isaac asked. “Because the Lord your God sent it my way,” Jacob 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 “Come over here so I can touch you, my son,” Isaac told Jacob, “so I can tell if you're 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 Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “It's Jacob's voice but Esau's hands.”
accessit ille ad patrem et palpato eo dixit Isaac vox quidem vox Iacob est sed manus manus sunt Esau
23 Isaac didn't realize it was really Jacob because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's, so Isaac got ready to bless him.
et non cognovit eum quia pilosae manus similitudinem maioris expresserant benedicens ergo illi
24 “It's really you, my son Esau?” he asked again. “Yes, it's me,” Jacob replied.
ait tu es filius meus Esau respondit ego sum
25 Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your wild game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought some for him to eat, as well as some wine for him to drink.
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 Afterwards he said to Isaac, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”
dixit ad eum accede ad me et da mihi osculum fili mi
27 So Jacob went over and kissed him, and Isaac could smell the clothes Jacob was wearing. So he went ahead with the blessing, saying to himself, “See—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 use the dew of heaven and fertile land to give you rich harvests of grain and new wine!
det tibi Deus de rore caeli et de pinguedine terrae abundantiam frumenti et vini
29 May the people of different nations serve you and bow down to you. May you rule over your relatives, and may they bow down to you. May everyone who curses you be cursed, and may everyone 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 After Isaac finished blessing Jacob—in fact Jacob had just left his father—Esau returned from his hunting trip.
vix Isaac sermonem impleverat et egresso Iacob foras venit Esau
31 He had also made some tasty food, and took it to his father. Esau said to Isaac, “Sit up, my father, and eat some of my wild game so you can bless me.”
coctosque de venatione cibos intulit patri dicens surge pater mi et comede de venatione filii tui ut benedicat mihi anima tua
32 “Who are you?” Isaac asked him. “I'm your son, your firstborn son, Esau,” he replied.
dixitque illi Isaac quis enim es tu qui respondit ego sum primogenitus filius tuus Esau
33 Isaac started to shake all over and asked, “So who was it who went hunting game and then brought it to me? I ate it all before you came back and I blessed him. His blessing will remain.”
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 cried out in great anger and bitterness, and pleaded with his father, “Please bless me too, my father!”
auditis Esau sermonibus patris inrugiit clamore magno et consternatus ait benedic etiam mihi pater mi
35 But Isaac replied, “You brother came and deceived me—he stole your blessing!”
qui ait venit germanus tuus fraudulenter et accepit benedictionem tuam
36 “Isn't he well named—Jacob the deceiver!” said Esau. “He's deceived me twice. First he took my birthright, and now he's stolen my blessing! Haven't you kept 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 Isaac replied to Esau. “I have made him ruler over you, and have said that all his relatives will be his servants. I have declared that he will be well supplied with grain and new wine. So 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 “Do you only have one blessing, my father?” Esau asked. “Please bless me too!” Then Esau began to cry very loudly.
cui Esau num unam inquit tantum benedictionem habes pater mihi quoque obsecro ut benedicas cumque heiulatu magno fleret
39 Then his father Isaac declared, “Listen! You will live far away from fertile land, far from the dew of heaven that falls from above.
motus Isaac dixit ad eum in pinguedine terrae et in rore caeli desuper
40 You will make a living by using your sword, and you will be your brother's servant. But when you rebel, you will throw off 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 From then on Esau hated Jacob because of his father's blessing. Esau said to himself, “Soon the time will come when I'll mourn my father's death. Then I'll 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 However, Rebekah found out what Esau was saying, so she sent for Jacob. “Look,” she told him, “your brother Esau is making himself feel better by making plans 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, my son, listen carefully to what I tell you. Leave immediately and go to my brother Laban in Haram.
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 anger cools down.
habitabisque cum eo dies paucos donec requiescat furor fratris tui
45 Once he's cooled down and forgets what you did to him, I'll send for you to come back. Why should I lose both of you in a single 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 went and told Isaac, “I'm so sick of these Hittite women—they're ruining my life! If Jacob also marries a Hittite woman like them, one of the local people, I'd rather die!”
dixit quoque Rebecca ad Isaac taedet me vitae meae propter filias Heth si acceperit Iacob uxorem de stirpe huius terrae nolo vivere
