Genesis 27
1 Senuit autem Isaac, et caligaverunt oculi eius, et videre non poterat: vocavitque Esau filium suum maiorem, et dixit ei: Fili mi? Qui respondit: Adsum.
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.
2 Cui pater: Vides, inquit, quod senuerim, et ignorem diem mortis meae.
“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
3 Sume arma tua, pharetram, et arcum, et egredere foras: cumque venatu aliquid apprehenderis,
Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.
4 fac mihi inde pulmentum sicut velle me nosti, et affer ut comedam: et benedicat tibi anima mea antequam moriar.
Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
5 Quod cum audisset Rebecca, et ille abiisset in agrum ut iussionem patris impleret,
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,
6 dixit filio suo Iacob: Audivi patrem tuum loquentem cum Esau fratre tuo, et dicentem ei:
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
7 Affer mihi de venatione tua, et fac cibos ut comedam, et benedicam tibi coram Domino antequam moriar.
‘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 Nunc ergo fili mi, acquiesce consiliis meis:
Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.
9 et pergens ad gregem, affer mihi duos hoedos optimos, ut faciam ex eis escas patri tuo, quibus libenter vescitur:
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.
10 quas cum intuleris, et comederit, benedicat tibi priusquam moriatur.
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
11 Cui ille respondit: Nosti quod Esau frater meus homo pilosus sit, et ego lenis:
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
12 si attrectaverit me pater meus, et senserit, timeo ne putet me sibi voluisse illudere, et inducat super me maledictionem pro benedictione.
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.”
13 Ad quem mater: In me sit, ait, ista maledictio, fili mi: tantum audi vocem meam, et pergens affer quae dixi.
His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
14 Abiit, et attulit, deditque matri. Paravit illa cibos, sicut velle noverat patrem illius.
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
15 Et vestibus Esau valde bonis, quas apud se habebat domi, induit eum:
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.
16 pelliculasque hoedorum circumdedit manibus, et colli nuda protexit.
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
17 Deditque pulmentum, et panes, quos coxerat, tradidit.
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
18 Quibus illatis, dixit: Pater mi? At ille respondit: Audio. Quis es tu fili mi?
So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
19 Dixitque Iacob: Ego sum primogenitus tuus Esau: feci sicut praecepisti mihi: surge, sede, et comede de venatione mea, ut benedicat mihi anima tua.
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.”
20 Rursumque Isaac ad filium suum: Quo modo, inquit, tam cito invenire potuisti, fili mi? Qui respondit: Voluntas Dei fuit ut cito occurreret mihi quod volebam:
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.
21 Dixitque Isaac: Accede ad me, ut tangam te fili mi, et probem utrum tu sis filius meus Esau, an non.
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
22 Accessit ille ad patrem, et palpato eo, dixit Isaac: Vox quidem, vox Iacob est: sed manus, manus sunt Esau.
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.”
23 Et non cognovit eum, quia pilosae manus similitudinem maioris expresserant. Benedicens ergo illi,
Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
24 ait: Tu es filius meus Esau? Respondit: Ego sum.
Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
25 At ille: Affer mihi, inquit, cibos de venatione tua, fili mi, ut benedicat tibi anima mea. Quos cum oblatos comedisset, obtulit ei etiam vinum. quo hausto,
“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 dixit ad eum: Accede ad me, et da mihi osculum, fili mi.
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
27 Accessit, et osculatus est eum. Statimque ut sensit vestimentorum illius fragrantiam, benedicens illi, ait: Ecce odor filii mei sicut odor agri pleni, cui benedixit Dominus.
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.
28 Det tibi Deus de rore caeli, et de pinguedine terrae abundantiam frumenti et vini.
May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
29 Et serviant tibi populi, et adorent te tribus: esto dominus fratrum tuorum, et incurventur ante te filii matris tuae. qui maledixerit tibi, sit ille maledictus: et qui benedixerit tibi, benedictionibus repleatur.
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.”
30 Vix Isaac sermonem impleverat: et egresso Iacob foras, venit Esau,
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
31 coctosque de venatione cibos intulit patri, dicens: Surge pater mi, et comede de venatione filii tui: ut benedicat mihi anima tua.
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.”
32 Dixitque illi Isaac: Quis enim es tu? Qui respondit: Ego sum filius tuus primogenitus Esau.
But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
33 Expavit Isaac stupore vehementi: et ultra quam credi potest, admirans, ait: Quis igitur ille est qui dudum captam venationem attulit mihi, et comedi ex omnibus priusquam tu venires? benedixique ei, et erit benedictus.
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!”
34 Auditis Esau sermonibus patris, irrugiit clamore magno: et consternatus, ait: Benedic etiam et mihi, pater mi.
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!”
35 Qui ait: Venit germanus tuus fraudulenter, et accepit benedictionem tuam.
But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36 At ille subiunxit: Iuste vocatum est nomen eius Iacob: supplantavit enim me en altera vice: primogenita mea ante tulit, et nunc secundo surripuit benedictionem meam. Rursumque ad patrem: Numquid non reservasti, ait, et mihi benedictionem?
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?”
37 Respondit Isaac: Dominum tuum illum constitui, et omnes fratres eius servituti illius subiugavi: frumento et vino stabilivi eum, et tibi post haec, fili mi, ultra quid faciam?
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?”
38 Cui Esau: Num unam, inquit, tantum benedictionem habes, pater? mihi quoque obsecro ut benedicas. Cumque eiulatu magno fleret,
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
39 motus Isaac, dixit ad eum: In pinguedine terrae, et in rore caeli desuper
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.
40 erit benedictio tua. Vives in gladio, et fratri tuo servies: tempusque veniet, cum excutias, et solvas iugum eius de cervicibus tuis.
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
41 Oderat ergo semper Esau Iacob pro benedictione qua benedixerat ei pater: dixitque in corde suo: Venient dies luctus patris mei, et occidam Iacob fratrem meum.
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.”
42 Nunciata sunt haec Rebeccae: quae mittens et vocans Iacob filium suum, dixit ad eum: Ecce Esau frater tuus minatur ut occidat te.
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.
43 Nunc ergo, fili mi, audi vocem meam, et consurgens fuge ad Laban fratrem meum in Haran:
So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
44 habitabisque cum eo dies paucos, donec requiescat furor fratris tui,
Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
45 et cesset indignatio eius, obliviscaturque eorum quae fecisti in eum: postea mittam, et adducam te inde huc. cur utroque orbabor filio in uno die?
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?”
46 Dixitque Rebecca ad Isaac: Taedet me vitae meae propter filias Heth: si acceperit Iacob uxorem de stirpe huius terrae, nolo vivere.
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?”
