If any harm comes it will come to me so do not be afraid, but go and bring the meat." My father will feel of me, and he will find that I am not Esau and then, instead of giving me a blessing, I am afraid that he will curse me."īut Rebekah answered her son, "Never mind you do as I have told you, and I will take care of you. His neck and arms are covered with hairs, while mine are smooth. And you will bring it to your father, and he will think that you are Esau, and will give you the blessing and it really belongs to you."īut Jacob said, "You know that Esau and I are not alike. Go to the flocks and bring to me two little kids from the goats, and I will cook them just like the meat which Esau cooks for your father. "Now, my son, do what I tell you, and you will get the blessing instead of your brother. So she called to Jacob and told him what Isaac had said to Esau, and she said: She knew that it would be better for Jacob to have the blessing than for Esau and she loved Jacob more than Esau. Now Rebekah was listening, and heard all that Isaac had said to Esau. He went out into the fields hunting, to find the kind of meat which his father liked the most. Now Esau ought to have told his father that the blessing did not belong to him, for he had sold it to his brother Jacob. Go out into the fields, and with your bow and arrows shoot some animal that is good for food, and make for me a dish of cooked meat such as you know I love and after I have eaten it I will give you the blessing." But before I die, I wish to give to you, as my older son, God's blessing upon you, and your children, and your descendants. "My son, I am very old, and do not know how soon I must die.
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Isaac became at last very old and feeble, and so blind that he could see scarcely anything. Isaac and Rebekah were very sorry to have their son Esau marry women who prayed to idols and not to God but still Isaac loved his active son Esau more than his quiet son Jacob. And they taught their children also to pray to idols so that those who came from Esau, the people who were his descendants, lost all knowledge of God, and became very wicked. But Esau's two wives were women from the people of Canaan, who worshipped idols, and not the true God. Though this would be very wicked in our times, it was not supposed to be wrong then for even good men then had more than one wife. Some time after this, when Esau was forty years old, he married two wives. It was not right for Jacob to deal so selfishly with his brother but it was very wrong in Esau to care so little for his birthright and God's blessing. Then Esau made Jacob a solemn promise to give to Jacob his birthright, all for a bowl of food.
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Will you not give me some? I am hungry."Īnd Jacob answered, "I will give it to you, if you will first of all sell to me your birthright."Īnd Esau said, "What is the use of the birthright to me now, when I am almost starving to death? You can have my birthright if you will give me something to eat." "Give me some of that red stuff in the dish.
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Once, when Esau came home, hungry and tired from hunting in the fields, he saw that Jacob had a bowl of something that he had just cooked for dinner. But Jacob, who was a wise man, wished greatly to have the birthright which would come to Esau when his father died. Now Esau, when he grew up, did not care for his birthright or the blessing which God had promised. And besides this, there was the privilege of the promise of God that the family of Isaac should receive great blessings. So Esau, as the older, had a "birthright" to more of Isaac's possessions than Jacob. This was called his "birthright," for it was his right as the oldest born. Isaac loved Esau more than Jacob, because Esau brought to his father that which he had killed in his hunting but Rebekah liked Jacob, because she saw that he was wise and careful in his work.Īmong the people in those lands, when a man dies, his older son receives twice as much as the younger of what the father has owned. Jacob was quiet and thoughtful, staying at home, dwelling in a tent, and caring for the flocks of his father. The older was named Esau and the younger Jacob.Įsau was a man of the woods and very fond of hunting and he was rough and covered with hair. Isaac and his wife Rebekah had two children. Like his father, Isaac had his home in a tent around him were the tents of his people, and many flocks of sheep and herds of cattle feeding wherever they could find grass to eat and water to drink. The Wonder Book of Bible Stories - Logan MarshallAfter Abraham died, his son Isaac lived in the land of Canaan.