Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 26
The Five Books of Moses
6 to bring in. Then Rebekka. spoke to I hzgve j_ust ~ heard your fatherspcak to your brother
7 Esau, saying, ‘ Bring tome venison, and make me tasty food, that I may eat IO ll I2 16 x8 it, and I will bless you before I die. So now my son, listen to my voice to do what I shall order you._ Goto the Bock, and select for me two good kids of theygoats and I will make tasty food for your father such as he loves, and you shall carry it to your father, when he will eat, and because of it he will bless you before his But jacob said to Rebekka his
But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.; when my father feels me I shall be in his eyes like a swindler, and shall bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing! His mother however said to him;
‘ Let any curse for youcome on me my sou, only you go and do as I tell you. He consequently went, and did it,
and brought to his mother, and she made for him tasty food such as his father loved. Then Rebekka took some ofthe clothes of her son Esau, which were in the house with her, and `put them on her younger son jacob, and put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and the smooth part of his neck. Then she gave the dainties and the bread which she had made into the handof her younger son jacob, and he went to Father,’ I am here; who are
I am your eldest son Esau, I have done as you ·asked‘me. Rise now, turn and 21 22 eat of my venison, so that your soul may bless me. Isaac, however, asked his son; How is it you have been so quick in meeting with it my son ?’ Because your
Even-mviuo Gon brought it before me. ’ Come
near me, my son, and I will feel if you are really my son Esau, or no.' So jacob approached to Isaac his
The voice is the voice of jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau' therefore he did not detect him, because his hands were like the hands of his brother Esau, hairy, 27--36 and he was thankful. Yet he asked, 24 and I am. Bring it to me and 25 I will eat of the venison of my son, so that my soul may bless you. He consequently presented it to
him and he ate; and he brought wine to him and he drank. Come
close now, my son, andgive me a So he approached and gave him a drink; and he smelt the smell of his clothes and was satisfied, and said ;-·—-‘ Yes! the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed, so may Gon give to you the dew from the skies, and the fatness of the earth, and increase and possession. Nations shall serve you, and bow down to you; yes, a multitude of mighty peoples, with your brothers also shall pay tribute to you, my son. If any curses you, he shallbecursed; and if any blesses you, he shall be blessd. But it happened that as Isaac
dnished blessing jacob, and jacob had gone away from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came with his venison, and he also had made dainties, and brought them to his father, and said Arise, my father, and eat of the venison of your son, so that your soul may blessme. Isaac his father however asked of
and he I am your firstborn son Then Isaac was terrified with a
Who then is he who has hunted venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and I 26 28 33 have blessed him ?-Yes and he must When Esau heard the speech of 34 ‘ his father, then he cried with a very reat and bitter cry, and said to his
Bless me, also me, my Your brother has 35 come with deception and stolen your blessing} He was 36 rightly named 'Tripper-up’1 for he has tricked me this twice; to take my birthright, and also now to take my In Hebrew Yakoba English jacob.-—F. F. 26
