Isaac Blesses Jacob
1 Isaac was now old and had become blind. He sent for his older son Esau and said to him, “Son!”
“Yes,” he answered.
2 Isaac said, “You see that I am old and may die soon. 3 Take your bow and arrows, go out into the country, and kill an animal for me. 4 Cook me some of that tasty food that I like, and bring it to me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my final blessing before I die.”
5 While Isaac was talking to Esau, Rebecca was listening. So when Esau went out to hunt, 6 she said to Jacob, “I have just heard your father say to Esau, 7 ‘Bring me an animal and cook it for me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’ 8 Now, son,” Rebecca continued, “listen to me and do what I say. 9 Go to the flock and pick out two fat young goats, so that I can cook them and make some of that food your father likes so much. 10 You can take it to him to eat, and he will give you his blessing before he dies.”
11 But Jacob said to his mother, “You know that Esau is a hairy man, but I have smooth skin. 12 Perhaps my father will touch me and find out that I am deceiving him; in this way, I will bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”
13 His mother answered, “Let any curse against you fall on me, my son; just do as I say, and go and get the goats for me.” 14 So he went to get them and brought them to her, and she cooked the kind of food that his father liked. 15 Then she took Esau's best clothes, which she kept in the house, and put them on Jacob. 16 She put the skins of the goats on his arms and on the hairless part of his neck. 17 She handed him the tasty food, along with the bread she had baked.
18 Then Jacob went to his father and said, “Father!”
“Yes,” he answered. “Which of my sons are you?”
19 Jacob answered, “I am your older son Esau; I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessing.”
20 Isaac said, “How did you find it so quickly, son?”
Jacob answered, “The Lord your God helped me find it.”
21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so that I can touch you. Are you really Esau?” 22 Jacob moved closer to his father, who felt him and said, “Your voice sounds like Jacob's voice, but your arms feel like Esau's arms.” 23 He did not recognize Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau's. He was about to give him his blessing, 24 but asked again, “Are you really Esau?”
“I am,” he answered.
25 Isaac said, “Bring me some of the meat. After I eat it, I will give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him, and he also brought him some wine to drink. 26 Then his father said to him, “Come closer and kiss me, son.” 27 As he came up to kiss him, Isaac smelled his clothes—so he gave him his blessing. He said, “The pleasant smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. 28 May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile! May he give you plenty of grain and wine! 29 May nations be your servants, and may peoples bow down before you. May you rule over all your relatives, and may your mother's descendants bow down before you. May those who curse you be cursed, and may those who bless you be blessed.”
Esau Begs for Isaac's Blessing
30 Isaac finished giving his blessing, and as soon as Jacob left, his brother Esau came in from hunting. 31 He also cooked some tasty food and took it to his father. He said, “Please, father, sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessing.”
32 “Who are you?” Isaac asked.
“Your older son Esau,” he answered.
33 Isaac began to tremble and shake all over, and he asked, “Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came. I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever.”
34 When Esau heard this, he cried out loudly and bitterly and said, “Give me your blessing also, father!”
35 Isaac answered, “Your brother came and deceived me. He has taken away your blessing.”
36 Esau said, “This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the first-born son, and now he has taken away my blessing. Haven't you saved a blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered, “I have already made him master over you, and I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him grain and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!”
38 Esau continued to plead with his father: “Do you have only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” He began to cry.
39 Then Isaac said to him,
“No dew from heaven for you,
No fertile fields for you.
40 You will live by your sword,
But be your brother's slave.
Yet when you rebel,
You will break away from his control.”
41 Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, “The time to mourn my father's death is near; then I will kill Jacob.”
42 But when Rebecca heard about Esau's plan, she sent for Jacob and said, “Listen, your brother Esau is planning to get even with you and kill you. 43 Now, son, do what I say. Go at once to my brother Laban in Haran, 44 and stay with him for a while, until your brother's anger cools down 45 and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send someone to bring you back. Why should I lose both of my sons on the same day?”
Isaac Sends Jacob to Laban
46 Rebecca said to Isaac, “I am sick and tired of Esau's foreign wives. If Jacob also marries one of these Hittites, I might as well die.”
Jēkabs iegūst Īzaka svētību
1 Kad Īzaks bija palicis vecs un viņa acis duļķainas, un viņš vairs neredzēja, viņš pasauca savu vecāko dēlu Ēsavu un viņam teica: “Mans dēls!” Tas atbildēja: “Es te!” 2 Un viņš teica: “Redzi, es esmu vecs un nezinu, kad miršu. 3 Tad nu ņem savus ieročus, bultu maku un loku, ej uz lauka, nomedī man medījumu 4 un pagatavo man gardumu, kāds man tīk, atnes man, un es ēdīšu, lai varu tevi svētīt, pirms mirstu!” 5 Un Rebeka klausījās, ko Īzaks runāja ar savu dēlu Ēsavu, bet Ēsavs aizgāja uz lauku, lai medītu un pārnestu medījumu. 6 Un Rebeka teica savam dēlam Jēkabam: “Klau, es dzirdēju tavu tēvu runājam ar tavu brāli, viņš sacīja: 7 atnes man medījumu un pagatavo man gardumu, un es ēdīšu un tevi svētīšu Kunga priekšā, pirms es mirstu! 8 Tad nu, mans dēls, klausi, ko saku, ko es tev pavēlu: 9 ej nu pie ganāmpulka, paņem divus labus kazlēnus, un es sagatavošu tos par gardumu tēvam, kā viņam tīk. 10 Aiznes tos savam tēvam, lai viņš ēd un svētī tevi pirms nāves!” 11 Bet Jēkabs teica savai mātei Rebekai: “Re, mans brālis Ēsavs ir spalvains, bet es esmu gluds! 12 Ka mans tēvs neaptausta mani un nenodomā, ka es ņirgājos – tā es sev tik lāstu uzkraušu, nevis svētību!” 13 Bet viņa māte teica: “Lai pār mani nāk tavs lāsts, mans dēls! Klausi taču, ej un atnes man!” 14 Un viņš gāja, ņēma un atnesa savai mātei, un viņa māte pagatavoja tādu gardumu, kāds viņa tēvam tīk. 15 Tad Rebeka paņēma sava vecākā dēla Ēsava labākās drānas, kādas viņai mājā bija, un viņa saģērba savu jaunāko dēlu Jēkabu. 16 Viņa rokām un gludajam kaklam viņa aplika kazlēnu ādas. 17 Un viņa iedeva savam dēlam Jēkabam gardumus, ko bija sagatavojusi, un maizi.
18 Viņš gāja pie sava tēva un teica: “Mans tēvs,” un viņš atbildēja: “Es te, kurš no maniem dēliem tu esi?” 19 Un Jēkabs teica savam tēvam: “Es esmu Ēsavs, tavs pirmdzimtais, es izdarīju, ko tu man teici! Celies, sēdi un ēd manu medījumu, lai tu vari mani svētīt!” 20 Un Īzaks teica savam dēlam: “Kā tu tik ātri dabūji, mans dēls?” Un viņš teica: “Man panācās pretī Kungs, tavs Dievs!” 21 Un Īzaks teica Jēkabam: “Panāc nu šurp, mans dēls, lai es varu tevi aptaustīt, vai tu esi mans dēls Ēsavs vai ne!” 22 Jēkabs panācās tuvāk savam tēvam Īzakam, viņš aptaustīja viņu un teica: “Balss – Jēkaba balss, bet rokas – Ēsava rokas!” 23 Un viņš to nepazina, jo viņa rokas bija spalvainas kā viņa brālim Ēsavam, un viņš to svētīja. 24 Viņš pārvaicāja: “Tas esi tu – mans dēls Ēsavs?” Un tas teica: “Es!” 25 Un viņš teica: “Padod man šurp, un es ēdīšu sava dēla medījumu, lai es pats tevi svētītu!” – un tas viņam deva, un viņš ēda, un tas viņam atnesa vīnu, un viņš dzēra. 26 Un viņa tēvs Īzaks tam teica: “Panāc jel šurp un noskūpsti mani, mans dēls!” 27 Tas pienāca tuvāk, un viņš to noskūpstīja un saoda tā drēbju smaržu, un viņš svētīja to:
“Skat, mana dēla smarža
kā lauka smarža, ko svētījis Kungs!
28 Lai Dievs tev dod no debesu rasas
un zemes leknuma
un daudz maizes un vīna!
29 Tev vergos tautas,
un tev klanīsies ciltis!
Tu būsi valdnieks saviem brāļiem,
un tev klanīsies tavas mātes dēli!
Kas tevi nolād – tas nolādēts,
kas tevi svētī – tas svētīts!”
Zaudētā svētība
(Ebr 12:17)30 Kad Īzaks bija svētījis Jēkabu un Jēkabs jau bija aizgājis no sava tēva, no medībām pārnāca viņa brālis Ēsavs. 31 Un arī viņš pagatavoja gardumu, atnesa savam tēvam un teica: “Lai mans tēvs ceļas un ēd sava dēla medījumu, lai tu vari mani svētīt!” 32 Un viņa tēvs Īzaks viņam jautāja: “Kas tu esi?!” Viņš teica: “Es esmu tavs dēls, tavs pirmdzimtais, Ēsavs!” 33 Un Īzaks trīcēja drebēdams un teica: “Kurš bija tas, kas nomedīja medījumu un atnesa man, un es apēdu to visu, pirms tu atnāci, un es viņu svētīju, un viņš arī paliks svētīts!?” 34 Kad Ēsavs dzirdēja sava tēva vārdus, viņš brēca jo rūgti un teica savam tēvam: “Svētī arī mani, mans tēvs!” 35 Bet viņš teica: “Tavs brālis atnāca ar viltu un paņēma tavu svētību!” 36 Un tas sacīja: “Vai ne tāpēc viņu sauc par Jēkabu, ka abas šīs reizes viņš ir piekrāpis mani – viņš paņēma manu pirmdzimtību, un, re, tagad viņš paņēma arī manu svētību!” Viņš teica: “Vai tev nav palikusi man kāda svētība?” 37 Īzaks atbildēja Ēsavam: “Redzi, es viņu esmu licis tev par valdnieku un visus viņa brāļus esmu viņam atdevis par vergiem, un ar maizi un vīnu esmu viņu nodrošinājis! Un ko lai es dodu tev, mans dēls?” 38 Ēsavs teica savam tēvam: “Vai tev ir viena svētība, mans tēvs? Svētī arī mani, mans tēvs!” 39 Un viņa tēvs Īzaks atbildēja tam:
“Bez zemes leknuma būs tavs miteklis
un bez debesu rasas no augšienes!
40 No sava zobena tu dzīvosi,
un savam brālim tu kalposi,
bet, kad tu sadumposies,
tu norausi viņa jūgu no sava kakla!”
Jēkabs bēg no Ēsava dusmām
41 Un Ēsavs ienīda Jēkabu tās svētības dēļ, ar ko tēvs viņu bija svētījis. Ēsavs teica savā sirdī: “Tuvojas mana tēva sēru dienas, tad es nokaušu savu brāli Jēkabu.” 42 Kad Rebekai pastāstīja, ko teicis viņas vecākais dēls, viņa sūtīja pasaukt savu jaunāko dēlu Jēkabu un viņam teica: “Redzi, tavs brālis Ēsavs tev atriebsies un nokaus tevi! 43 Tagad, mans dēls, klausi mani, celies un bēdz uz Hārānu pie mana brāļa Lābana. 44 Paliec pie viņa kādas dienas, līdz tava brāļa dusmas pāriet, 45 līdz no tevis novēršas tava brāļa niknums un viņš aizmirst, ko tu viņam esi darījis, – tad es sūtīšu tevi atvest no turienes! Kādēļ man vienā dienā jāpaliek bez jums abiem?”
46 Un Rebeka teica Īzakam: “Man riebj dzīvot Hēta meitu dēļ – ja Jēkabs ņems sievu no Hēta meitām, no šīs zemes meitām, tad kādēļ man dzīvot?”
