Jubilees

And in the seventh year of this week, Isaac called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: "I am old, my son, and behold, my eyes are weak in sight, and I do not know the day of my death.

And now take your hunting weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out into the fields, and hunt and bring me, my son, and prepare 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."

But Rebekah heard Isaac speaking with Esau.

And Esau went out early to the fields to hunt and to bring something home to his father.

And Rebekah called Jacob, her son, and said to him: "Behold, I heard Isaac, your father, speaking with 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."

And now, my son, obey my voice in what I command you: "Go to your flock and bring me two good kids, and I will make of them 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."

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: "Mother, I will withhold nothing that my father may eat, and that may please him. I only fear, my mother, that he may recognize my voice and want to touch me.

And you know that I am smooth, and Esau, my brother, is hairy. And I shall be considered by him as an evildoer. Who has done a work that was not commanded him. And that he may be angry with me, and that I may bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing."

And Rebekah, his mother, said to him: "Let your curse be upon me. Only obey my voice."

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

And Rebekah took the best garments of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and she sewed them for Jacob, her younger son, and she put the skins of the kids upon his hands and upon the exposed parts of his neck.

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

And Jacob went to his father and said: "I am your son: I have done as you asked me. Come near, sit down and eat of what I have captured, father, that your soul may bless me."

And Isaac said to his son: "How did you find it so quickly, my son?"

And Jacob said: "Because the Lord your God made me find it."

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

And Jacob came 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 recognize him, because it was a dispensation from heaven to remove his power of perception and Isaac did not discern him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau, so that he blessed him.

And he said: "Are you my son Esau?" and he said: "I am your son." and he said:

"Bring it near to me so that I may eat of what you have caught, my son, that my soul may bless you."

And Isaac, his father, said to him: "Come near and kiss me, my son." And he came near and kissed him.

And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him, saying: "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the dew of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine. May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you.

Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. And may all the blessings with which the Lord has blessed me and blessed Abraham, my father, be imputed to you and to your descendants forever. Cursed be he who curses you, and blessed be he who blesses you.

And it came to pass, after Isaac finished blessing his son Jacob, and Jacob had departed from Isaac and hidden himself, that Esau, his brother, entered returning from his hunting.

And he also prepared savory meat, and brought it to his father, and he said to his father: "Let my father come near and eat of my stew, and let his soul bless me."

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

And Isaac was very much astonished and said: "Who is it that hunted and caught and brought me, and I ate of all before you came, and I blessed him? He shall be blessed, and all his descendants forever!"

And it came to pass when Esau heard these words of his father Isaac that he cried with a very loud and lamentable voice, and said to his father: "Bless me also, father."

And he said to him: "Your brother came with cunning and took your blessing." And he said: "Now I know why his name is Jacob. Behold, he has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!"

And he said: "Have you reserved a blessing for me, father?" and Isaac answered Esau: "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all your descendants I have given him for servants, and with abundance of corn, wine and oil I have strengthened him. And now what could I do for you, my son?"

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

And Isaac answered and said to him: "Behold, far from the dew of the earth shall your dwelling be, and far from the dew of heaven above. And by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. And it shall come to pass that when you become great, and when the yoke is removed from your neck, you shall sin a complete sin of death, and your descendants shall be exterminated from the earth."

And Esau began to threaten Jacob because of the blessing which his father had given him. And he said in his heart: "Let the days of mourning for my father come, so that I may kill my brother Jacob."