Study Desk

So Rebekah said to him, "If your father puts a curse on you, I will accept the blame. Just do what I said. Go get the goats for me."

So Jacob went out and got two goats and brought them to his mother, and she cooked them in the special way Isaac enjoyed.

But Isaac asked his son, "How did you find and kill the animal so quickly?" Jacob answered, "Because the Lord your God helped me to find it."

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son. Then I will know if you are really my son Esau."

So Jacob came near to Isaac his father. Isaac touched him and said, "Your voice sounds like Jacob's voice, but your hands are hairy like the hands of Esau."

Isaac did not know it was Jacob, because his hands were hairy like Esau's hands, so Isaac blessed him.

Then Isaac said, "Bring me the food, and I will eat it and bless you." So Jacob gave him the food, and he ate. Jacob gave him wine, and he drank.

So Jacob went to his father and kissed him. When Isaac smelled Esau's clothes, he blessed him and said, "The smell of my son is like the smell of the field that the Lord has blessed.

May God give you plenty of rain and good soil so that you will have plenty of grain and new wine.

Rebekah heard about Esau's plan to kill Jacob. So she sent for Jacob and said to him, "Listen, your brother Esau is comforting himself by planning to kill you.

So, my son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him at once!

Stay with him for a while, until your brother is not so angry.

May he give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham."

So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

So Esau saw that his father Isaac did not want his sons to marry Canaanite women.

so I will be able to return in peace to my father's house. If the Lord does these things, he will be my God.

Jacob said, "But look, it is still the middle of the day. It is not time for the sheep to be gathered for the night, so give them water and let them go back into the pasture."

He told her that he was from her father's family and that he was the son of Rebekah. So Rachel ran home and told her father.

Jacob loved Rachel, so he said to Laban, "Let me marry your younger daughter Rachel. If you will, I will work seven years for you."

Laban said, "It would be better for her to marry you than someone else, so stay here with me."