Isaac Blesses Jacob and Esau
Genesis 27–28 (selections)
Biblical Period
Chapter 27
[To Jacob, thinking that he is Esau:] 27And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that the Lord has blessed.
[. . . To Esau:] 39And his father Isaac answered, saying to him,
Chapter 28
[To Jacob:] 3May El Shaddai bless you, make you fertile and numerous, so that you become an assembly of peoples. 4May He grant the blessing of Abraham to you and your offspring, that you may possess the land where you are sojourning, which God assigned to Abraham.”
Credits
Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
