Casa de Isaac y Rebeca con Esaú y Jacob
Jacob Receives Isaac’s Blessing, S.XX
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob: “I just heard your father speaking to your brother Esau. He said, ‘Go out hunting and prepare a stew for me, so that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’ Now, my son, listen to me and do as I tell you. Go to the flock and bring me two of the best young goats so I can prepare a stew for your father, the kind he likes. Then you will take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” [...] Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. Then she placed in Jacob’s hands the tasty stew and the bread she had prepared. Jacob went in to his father and said, “Father!” “Yes, my son,” Isaac answered. “Who is it?” Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my stew, so that you may give me your blessing.” [...] As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came back from hunting. (Genesis 27, 6- 10; 27, 15- 19; 27, 30)
According to the Book of Genesis, Isaac had twin sons with his wife Rebekah: Esau, who was born first and was a hunter, and Jacob, who was born later and was a young man devoted to his household.
Jacob bought the birthright from Esau in exchange of a bowl of lentil soup on a day when Esau was very hungry. Later, Isaac, already old and blind, wanted to bless Esau with the family inheritance. He asked Esau to go hunting first. But Rebekah, aware of the situation, made a plan so that Jacob, her favorite son, could get the blessing instead. With his mother’s help, Jacob wore Esau’s clothes, brought food to his father, and covered his arm with goat skin to imitate his brother’s thick hair. In this way, he tricked Isaac, old and blind, making him think he was Esau.
This scene represents three moments: Rebekah organizing the plan with Jacob, Jacob receiving his father’s blessing and Esau returning home.