Read Genesis 27:1-28 (Free Bible Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Genesis 27.1-28, Genesis 27v1-28, Gen. 27:1-28. Isaac was old and going blind. He called for Esau, his oldest son, and said, “My son.” “I'm here,” Esau replied. “I'm old now,” said Isaac, “I may die soo…
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1 Isaac was old and going blind. He called for Esau, his oldest son, and said, “My son.” “I'm here,” Esau replied.
2 “I'm old now,” said Isaac, “I may die soon, who knows?
3 So please take your bow and arrows and go hunting in the countryside for some meat for me.
4 Make me that tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so I can bless you before I die.”
5 Rebekah heard what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau left to go hunting in the countryside for wild game,
6 Rebekah told her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father tell your brother,
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.’
8 Now then, my son, listen to me and do exactly what I tell you.
9 Go to the flock and bring me two nice young goats. I'll cook them and make the tasty food your father loves.
10 Then you take it to your father to eat, so he can bless you in the presence of the Lord before he dies.”
11 “But listen,” Jacob replied to his mother Rebekah, “my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a smooth man.
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.”
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.”
14 So Jacob went and got them and took them to his mother, and she made some tasty food, the way his father loved.
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.
16 She put the goatskins on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
17 Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she'd made.
18 He went in to see his father, and called out, “My father, I'm here.” “Which son are you?” Isaac asked.
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.”
20 “How did you find an animal so fast, my son?” Isaac asked. “Because the Lord your God sent it my way,” Jacob replied.
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.”
22 Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “It's Jacob's voice but Esau's hands.”
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.
24 “It's really you, my son Esau?” he asked again. “Yes, it's me,” Jacob replied.
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.
26 Afterwards he said to Isaac, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”
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.”
28 “May God use the dew of heaven and fertile land to give you rich harvests of grain and new wine!
Bereshit : « Au commencement » Le mot « Genèse » vient du grec genesis, qui signifie « origine ». En hébreu, le livre s'appelle Bereshit, « Au commencement », son tout premier mot.
Author: Moïse · Written: XVe – XIIIe siècle av. J.-C. · Reading time: ≈ 3h30 · Characters: Adam, Ève, Noé, Abraham (Abram), Sara (Saraï), Isaac, Jacob (Israël), Joseph