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So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
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And he did not recognize him, because
1his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands.
2So he blessed him.
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He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."
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Then he said, "Bring it near to me,
3that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."
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So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments
4and blessed him and said, "See,
5the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed!
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May God give you of
6the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and
7plenty of grain and wine.
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Let peoples serve you, and nations
8bow down to you.
9Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
10Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"
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As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
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He also prepared delicious 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."
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His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
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Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."
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As soon as Esau heard the words of his father,
11he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"
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But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing."
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Esau said,
12"Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times.
13He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
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Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold,
14I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and
15with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"
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Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And
16Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
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Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold,
17away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.
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By your sword you shall live, and you
18shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless
19you shall break his yoke from your neck."
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Now Esau
20hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself,
21"The days of mourning for my father are approaching;
22then I will kill my brother Jacob."
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But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran
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and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away--