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"Let peoples serve you, and nations pay you homage; Be master of your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you." (Genesis 27,29)

Jacob had scarcely left his father, just after Isaac had finished blessing him, when his brother Esau came back from his hunt. (Genesis 27,30)

Then he too prepared an appetizing dish with his game, and bringing it to his father, he said, "Please, father, eat some of your son's game, that you may then give me your special blessing." (Genesis 27,31)

With that, Isaac was seized with a fit of uncontrollable trembling. "Who was it, then," he asked, "that hunted game and brought it to me? I finished eating it just before you came, and I blessed him. Now he must remain blessed!" (Genesis 27,33)

On hearing his father's words, Esau burst into loud, bitter sobbing. "Father, bless me too!" he begged. (Genesis 27,34)

When Isaac explained, "Your brother came here by a ruse and carried off your blessing," (Genesis 27,35)

Esau exclaimed, "He has been well named Jacob! He has now supplanted me twice! First he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing." Then he pleaded, "Haven't you saved a blessing for me?" (Genesis 27,36)

But Esau urged his father, "Have you only that one blessing, father? Bless me too!" Isaac, however, made no reply; and Esau wept aloud. (Genesis 27,38)

Esau bore Jacob a grudge because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "When the time of mourning for my father comes, I will kill my brother Jacob." (Genesis 27,41)

Isaac therefore called Jacob, greeted him with a blessing, and charged him: "You shall not marry a Canaanite woman! (Genesis 28,1)

May God Almighty bless you and make you fertile, multiply you that you may become an assembly of peoples. (Genesis 28,3)

May he extend to you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham, so that you may gain possession of the land where you are staying, which he assigned to Abraham." (Genesis 28,4)