Jubilees 26:1-35

¹And in the seventh year of this week [2114 A.M.] Isaac called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: 'I am old, my son, and behold my eyes are dim in seeing, and I do not know the day of my death.

²Now take your hunting weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt and catch me venison, my son, and make me savory meat, such as my soul loves, and bring it to me that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.'

³But Rebecca heard Isaac speaking to Esau.

⁴And Esau went forth early to the field to hunt and catch and bring home to his father.

⁵And Rebecca called Jacob, her son, and said to him: 'Behold, I heard Isaac, your father, speak to Esau, your brother, saying: "Hunt for me, and make me savory meat, and bring it to me that I may eat and bless you before the Lord before I die."'

⁶'And now, my son, obey my voice in what I command you: Go to your flock and fetch me two good kids of the goats, and I will make them into savory meat for your father, such as he loves, and you shall bring it to your father that he may eat and bless you before the Lord before he dies, and that you may be blessed.'

⁷And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother: 'Mother, I shall not withhold anything which my father would eat, and which would please him; only I fear, my mother, that he will recognize my voice and wish to touch me.

⁸And you know that I am smooth, and Esau, my brother, is hairy, and I shall appear before his eyes as an evildoer, and shall do a deed which he had not commanded me, and he will be angry with me, and I shall bring upon myself a curse, and not a blessing.'

⁹And Rebecca, his mother, said to him: 'Upon me be your curse, my son, only obey my voice.'

¹⁰And Jacob obeyed the voice of Rebecca, his mother, and went and fetched two good and fat kids of the goats, and brought them to his mother, and his mother made them into savory meat such as he loved.

¹¹And Rebecca took the goodly garments of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and she clothed Jacob, her younger son, with them, and she put the skins of the kids upon his hands and on the exposed parts of his neck.

¹²And she gave the meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

¹³And Jacob went in to his father and said: 'I am your son: I have done as you bade me; arise and sit and eat of what I have caught, father, that your soul may bless me.'

¹⁴And Isaac said to his son: 'How have you found it so quickly, my son?' And Jacob said: 'Because the Lord your God caused me to find it.'

¹⁵And Isaac said to him: 'Come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are my son Esau or not.'

¹⁶And 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,' and he did not discern him, because it was a dispensation from heaven to remove his power of perception; and Isaac did not discern him, for his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's, so that he blessed him.

¹⁷And he said: 'Are you my son Esau?' and he said: 'I am your son'; and he said, 'Bring it near to me that I may eat of what you have caught, my son, that my soul may bless you.'

¹⁸And he brought it near to him, and he ate, and he brought him wine and he drank.

¹⁹And Isaac, his father, said to him: 'Come near and kiss me, my son.'

²⁰And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said: 'Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a full field which the Lord has blessed.

²¹And may the Lord give you of the dew of heaven and of the dew of the earth, and plenty of grain and oil: let nations serve you, and peoples bow down to you.

²²Be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons bow down to you; and may all the blessings with which the Lord has blessed me and blessed Abraham, my father, be imparted to you and to your seed forever: cursed be he who curses you, and blessed be he who blesses you.'

²³And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had finished blessing his son Jacob, and Jacob had gone forth from Isaac his father, he hid himself, and Esau, his brother, came in from his hunting.

²⁴And he also made savory meat, and brought it to his father, and said to his father: 'Let my father arise, and eat of my venison that your soul may bless me.'

²⁵And Isaac, his father, said to him: 'Who are you?' And he said to him: 'I am your firstborn, your son Esau: I have done as you commanded me.'

²⁶And Isaac was very greatly astonished, and said: 'Who is he that has hunted and caught and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? And he shall be blessed, and all his seed forever.'

²⁷And it came to pass when Esau heard the words of his father Isaac that he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father: 'Bless me, even me also, father.'

²⁸And he said to him: 'Your brother came with guile, and has taken away your blessing.' And he said: 'Now I know why his name is called Jacob: behold, he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing.'

²⁹And he said: 'Have you not reserved a blessing for me, father?' And Isaac answered and said to Esau: 'Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with plenty of grain and wine and oil I have strengthened him: and what now shall I do for you, my son?'

³⁰And Esau said to Isaac, his father: 'Have you but one blessing, O father? Bless me, even me also, father.' And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

³¹And Isaac answered and said to him: 'Behold, far from the dew of the earth shall be your dwelling, and far from the dew of heaven from above.

³²And by your sword shall you live, and you shall serve your brother.

³³And it shall come to pass when you become great, and shake his yoke from off your neck, you shall sin a complete sin unto death, and your seed shall be rooted out from under heaven.'

³⁴And Esau kept threatening Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and he said in his heart: 'May the days of mourning for my father now come, so that I may slay my brother Jacob.'

³⁵And Esau kept threatening Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and he said in his heart: 'May the days of mourning for my father now come, so that I may slay my brother Jacob.'