# Genesis 27 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Genesis Overview]]. [[Genesis 26]]. [[Genesis 28]]. > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing [[#Verse 01.]] When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau replied.  [[#Verse 02.]] Isaac said, “Since I am so old, I could die at any time. [[#Verse 03.]] Therefore, take your weapons—your quiver and your bow—and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me. [[#Verse 04.]] Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.” [[#Verse 05.]] Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,  [[#Verse 06.]] Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,  [[#Verse 07.]] ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’  [[#Verse 08.]] Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you! [[#Verse 09.]] Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. [[#Verse 10.]] Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.” [[#Verse 11.]] “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin!  [[#Verse 12.]] My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”  [[#Verse 13.]] So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!” [[#Verse 14.]] So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.  [[#Verse 15.]] Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.  [[#Verse 16.]] She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck. [[#Verse 17.]] Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob. [[#Verse 18.]] He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?” [[#Verse 19.]] Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”  [[#Verse 20.]] But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied. [[#Verse 21.]] Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.” [[#Verse 22.]] So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.” [[#Verse 23.]] He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.  [[#Verse 24.]] Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob replied. [[#Verse 25.]] Isaac said, “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.  [[#Verse 26.]] Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”  [[#Verse 27.]] So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying, “Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the Lord has blessed. [[#Verse 28.]] May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine. [[#Verse 29.]] May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.” [[#Verse 30.]] Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.  [[#Verse 31.]] He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him, “My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” [[#Verse 32.]] His father Isaac asked, “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” he replied, “Esau!”  [[#Verse 33.]] Isaac began to shake violently and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!” [[#Verse 34.]] When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”  [[#Verse 35.]] But Isaac replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”  [[#Verse 36.]] Esau exclaimed, “Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?” [[#Verse 37.]] Isaac replied to Esau, “Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”  [[#Verse 38.]] Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly. [[#Verse 39.]] So his father Isaac said to him “See here, your home will be by the richness of the earth, and by the dew of the sky above. [[#Verse 40.]] You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.” [[#Verse 41.]] So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, “The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!” [[#Verse 42.]] When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.  [[#Verse 43.]] Now then, my son, do what I say.Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.  [[#Verse 44.]] Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.  [[#Verse 45.]] Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?” [[#Verse 46.]] Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!” ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? 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