Bible Verses About Jacob

And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.

He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Jacob.

Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?

Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.

And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

And his father said to him, Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death.

Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou hast taken something by hunting,

Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.

And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfil his father's commandment,

She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau, thy brother, and saying to him:

Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.

Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:

And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.

Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.

And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am smooth:

If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.

He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.

And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her:

And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.