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Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
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So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents.
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And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Esau Sells His Birthright
Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary.
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And Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
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But Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright as of this day.”
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Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as of this day.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
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And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
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Isaac Blesses Jacob
Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he answered him, “Here I am.”
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So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Indeed I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
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And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man.
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Then Rebekah took the choice clothes of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
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Then she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done just as you told me; please arise, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”
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Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
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So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
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Esau’s Lost Hope
Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
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And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
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Jacob Escapes from Esau
So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Surely your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you.
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And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
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Jacob Sent to His Uncle Laban
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
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So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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Esau Marries Mahalath
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.
