37. Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, “I have made him your lord, and I have given to him all his brothers as servants; and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What can I now do for you, my son?”
38. And Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father!” Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39. Isaac his father answered and said to him, “Your dwelling shall beaway from the fatness of the earthand away from the dew of heaven from above.
40. You will live by your swordand will serve your brother.When you become restless,you will break his yokefrom your neck.”
41. So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
42. These words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Your brother Esau consoles himself regarding you by planning to kill you.
43. Now therefore, my son, listen to me and get up and flee to Laban, my brother in Harran.