17 Jul 2025 – jeffersonvann

Genesis 27

Genesis 27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see where he looked, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Notice me.”

Genesis 27:2 He said, “Notice, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.

Genesis 27:3 Now, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go outside and hunt game for me,

Genesis 27:4 and prepare for me delicious food, the kind that I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, and my throat will give a blessing to you before I die.”

Genesis 27:5 But Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So, when Esau went outside to hunt for game and bring it,

Genesis 27:6 Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, and this is what she said “Notice, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

Genesis 27:7 ‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before Yahveh before I die.’

Genesis 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice when I command you.

Genesis 27:9 Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, the kind he loves.

Genesis 27:10 And you will bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

Genesis 27:11 But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Notice, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27:12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will seem to be mocking him and this will bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”

Genesis 27:13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me.”

Genesis 27:14 And he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made tasty food, the kind that his father loved.

Genesis 27:15 Also, Rebekah took the valuable clothes of Esau her larger son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her smaller son.

Genesis 27:16 And she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck the skins of the young goats.

Genesis 27:17 And she set the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Genesis 27:18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Notice me. Who are you, my son?”

Genesis 27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you said to me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your throat may give a blessing to me.”

Genesis 27:20 But Isaac said to his son, “What is this, why did you find it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because Yahveh your God made it come to me.”

Genesis 27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Draw near me now, so that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Genesis 27:22 And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Genesis 27:23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So, he blessed him.

Genesis 27:24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”

Genesis 27:25 Then he said, “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and my throat bless you.” So, he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

Genesis 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Draw near and kiss me, my son.”

Genesis 27:27 So he drew near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his clothes and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahveh has blessed!

Genesis 27:28 May God give you from the dew of the sky and of the richness of the land and plenty of grain and wine.

Genesis 27:29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

Genesis 27:30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had only just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from hunting his food.

Genesis 27:31 He also prepared that delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat his son’s food, that your throat may bless me.”

Genesis 27:32 But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

Genesis 27:33 Then Isaac trembled anxiously 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 will be blessed.”

Genesis 27:34 As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a very loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

Genesis 27:35 But he said, “Your brother came deceptively, and he has taken away your blessing.”

Genesis 27:36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? Because he has cheated me two times. He took away my birth right, and notice, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Do you not have a blessing left for me?”

Genesis 27:37 Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Notice, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for slaves, and with grain and wine I have supported him. What then can I do for you, my son?”

Genesis 27:38 Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

Genesis 27:39 Then Isaac his father answered and he said to him: “Notice, your dwelling will be away from the fatness of the land, and away from the dew of the sky from above.

Genesis 27:40 By your sword you will live, and you will serve your brother; but when you grow restless you will break his yoke from your neck.”

Genesis 27:41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; after that I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 27:42 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, “Notice, your brother Esau consoles himself about you by planning to kill you.

Genesis 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, escape to Laban my brother in Haran

Genesis 27:44 and stay with him a while, until your brother’s rage abates-

Genesis 27:45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I lose you both in one day?”

Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I dread my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Genesis 27 quotes:

“The age of Isaac was the condition of Isaac which especially prompted him to action in our text. Because Isaac thought death was coming to him soon, he wanted to get busy with giving the patriarchal blessing. Isaac did not want to take any chances that he might die before this blessing was given.”

Bulter, John G. Isaac: The Promised Son. LBC Publications, 2008. p.186.

“Remember, Rebekah received the prophecy from God concerning the older son serving the younger. Her actions are the continuation of her false belief that she needed to force God’s will to come to pass”

Moore, Beth. The Patriarchs: Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. LifeWay Press, 2005. p. 119.

“Rebekah overheard Isaac say that he was going to give Esau the family blessing. Her response to this was to deceive her husband by arranging for Jacob to disguise himself and take in the meal his father had requested from Esau. Why she did not talk it through with Isaac, why she simply determined to deceive him, why God allowed her success, we do not know. All we are told is that with the help of Rebekah, and at her instigation, Jacob deceived Isaac and so received the family blessing.”

Griffiths, Paul. God and the Troubles of Life. Terra Nova Publications, 2000. p. 16.