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 faretram et arcum et egredere foras cumque venatu aliquid adprehenderis
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 adfer 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 abisset in agrum ut iussionem patris expleret
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 adfer mihi venationem tuam 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 adquiesce consiliis meis
Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.
9 et pergens ad gregem adfer mihi duos hedos 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 adtractaverit me pater meus et senserit timeo ne putet sibi voluisse inludere 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 perge adferque 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 adtulit deditque matri paravit illa cibos sicut noverat velle 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 hedorum 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 dedit pulmentum et panes quos coxerat tradidit
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
18 quibus inlatis dixit pater mi et ille respondit audio quis tu es 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 Esau primogenitus tuus 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 rursum Isaac ad filium suum quomodo inquit tam cito invenire potuisti fili mi qui respondit voluntatis Dei fuit ut cito mihi occurreret 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 huc 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 offer inquit mihi 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 flagrantiam benedicens ait ecce odor filii mei sicut odor agri 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 maledictus et qui benedixerit 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 primogenitus filius tuus 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 adtulit 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 inrugiit clamore magno et consternatus ait benedic etiam 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 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
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 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 heiulatu 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 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 veniant dies luctus patris mei ut 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 nuntiata 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 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 una 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 dixit quoque 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?”
