‘Bring me some game and prepare a dish for me to eat, that I may bless you with the Lord’s approval before I die.’
So Jacob went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared a dish in the way his father liked.
Then prepare for me a dish in the way I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father tell your brother Esau,
Now, my son, obey me in what I am about to order you.
This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before he died.
On that occasion Joshua imposed the oath: Cursed before the Lord be the man who attempts to rebuild this city, Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn will he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son will he set up its gates.
You have declared this day how you treated me graciously: the Lord delivered me into your hand and you did not kill me.