So Jacob went to his father and kissed him. When Isaac smelled Esau’s clothes, he blessed him and said, “My son smells like the fields the Lord has blessed.
Some people are like land that gets plenty of rain and produces a good crop for those who farm it. That kind of land has God’s blessing.
You pour rain on the plowed fields; you soak the fields with water. You make the ground soft with rain, and you make the young plants grow.
Isaac planted fields in that place, and that year he gathered a great harvest. The Lord blessed him very much.
Isaac blessed the future of Jacob and Esau. He did that because he had faith.
Young figs are growing on the fig trees. Smell the vines in bloom. Get up, my darling, my beautiful one. Let’s go away!”
Then Rebekah took the clothes that her older son Esau loved to wear. She put these clothes on the younger son Jacob.
Then Isaac said to him. “Son, come near and kiss me.”
Israel was old and his eyes were not good. So Joseph brought the boys close to his father. Israel kissed and hugged the boys.
Moses said this about Joseph: “May the Lord bless Joseph’s land with rain from the skies above and water from the ground below.
Then Isaac said to him, “You will not live on good land. You will not have much rain.
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, “My ancestors, Abraham and Isaac, worshiped our God, and that God has led me all my life.