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When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.” See also: 1 Samuel 3:2Genesis 48:10Genesis 25:23-25He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death. See also: James 4:14Proverbs 27:1Ecclesiastes 9:10Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison. See also: Genesis 25:27-28Genesis 10:91 Corinthians 6:12Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.” See also: Hebrews 11:20Genesis 48:9Genesis 27:25Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, See also: Genesis 25:28‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.’ See also: Joshua 6:26Deuteronomy 33:11 Samuel 24:19Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. See also: Ephesians 6:1Acts 5:29Genesis 27:13Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. See also: Judges 13:151 Samuel 16:20You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.” Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. See also: Genesis 25:25What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.” See also: Deuteronomy 27:18Job 12:161 Thessalonians 5:22His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.” See also: Matthew 27:251 Samuel 25:242 Samuel 14:9He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. See also: Genesis 25:28Psalms 141:4Genesis 27:17Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son. See also: Genesis 27:27Luke 20:46Luke 15:22She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.” See also: Isaiah 28:15Zechariah 13:3-4Matthew 26:70-74Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because the LORD your God gave me success.” See also: Genesis 24:12Exodus 20:7Job 13:7Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.” See also: James 4:8Isaiah 57:19Psalms 73:28Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. See also: Genesis 27:16Hebrews 11:20Romans 9:11-12He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.” See also: Colossians 3:9Ephesians 4:25Proverbs 12:22He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank. See also: Genesis 27:4His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.” He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed. See also: Hebrews 6:7Psalms 65:10Hebrews 11:20God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine. See also: Deuteronomy 33:28Deuteronomy 33:13Psalms 133:3Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.” See also: Numbers 24:9Genesis 12:3Isaiah 49:23As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.” See also: Genesis 27:4Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” See also: Genesis 27:18Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.” See also: Genesis 28:3-4Ephesians 1:3Romans 11:29When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.” See also: Hebrews 12:17Proverbs 1:311 Samuel 30:4He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.” See also: 1 Thessalonians 4:6Job 13:7Malachi 2:10He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?” See also: Genesis 25:26Genesis 25:31-34Genesis 32:28Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?” See also: Genesis 25:23Genesis 27:28-29Romans 9:10-12Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. See also: Hebrews 12:17Genesis 27:34Proverbs 1:24-26Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above. See also: Genesis 27:28Hebrews 11:20Genesis 36:6-8You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.” See also: 2 Kings 8:20-22Genesis 25:232 Samuel 8:14Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.” See also: 1 John 3:12-15Genesis 37:4Genesis 50:3-4The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. See also: Genesis 37:18-20Genesis 42:21-22Psalms 64:5Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. See also: Genesis 27:8Genesis 11:31Genesis 27:13Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away— See also: Genesis 31:38Genesis 31:41until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?” See also: Acts 28:4Genesis 9:5-6Genesis 4:8-16Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?” See also: Genesis 26:34-35Genesis 24:3Genesis 28:8
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 27:1
Ver. 1. Old: 137 years, when falling sickly and blind, at least for a time, he wished to bless Esau, who was 77 years old. T.
↑ 1Genesis 27:4
Ver. 4. That, &c. He does not mean, that the meat would induce him to give his blessing. Neither can we suppose, that he intended to pervert the order of God, in making the younger son subject to the elder, if he was informed by Rebecca, of that disposition of providence. C. --- But of this he seems to have been ignorant, v. 29. 35. W.
↑ 4Genesis 27:7
Ver. 7. In the sight of the Lord, answers to my soul, &c. v. 4. I will bless thee with all earnestness and sincerity. H.
↑ 7Genesis 27:12
Ver. 12. Mocked him, taking advantage of his blindness and old age. M.
↑ 12Genesis 27:13
Ver. 13. This curse. Rebecca had too much confidence in God's promises, to think that he would suffer them to be ineffectual. Hence, Onkelos makes her say, "I have learnt by revelation, that thou wilt receive no curse, but only blessing."
The sequel shewed, that she was directed by God in this delicate business. Theod. q. 78. C.
↑ 13Genesis 27:15
Ver. 15. Very good. Heb. desirable, kept among perfumes, v.
27. Such, the Hebrews say, were used by the first-born, when they offered sacrifice. S. Jerom, q. Heb.
↑ 15Genesis 27:19
Ver. 19. I am Esau, thy first-born. S. Augustine, (L. Contra Mendacium, c. x..) treating at large upon this place, excuseth Jacob from a lie, because this whole passage was mysterious, as relating to the preference which was afterwards to be given to the Gentiles before the carnal Jews, which Jacob by prophetic light might understand. So far is certain, that the first birth-right, both by divine election, and by Esau's free cession, belonged to Jacob: so that if there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than an officious and venial one. Ch. ---
Ignorance might also excuse them from any sin; as many good and learned men have thought an officious lie to be lawful. S.
Chrys. hom. 52. Origen. Bonfrere. And even if we allow that they did wrong; the Scripture relates, but does not sanction what they did, Let him that thinks himself to stand, take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. x. 12. C. --- As our Saviour says of S. John, He is Elias, Matt. xi, so, Jacob says, I am Esau, not in person , but in right of the first-born. W.
↑ 19Genesis 27:22
Ver. 22. Of Esau. Thus, too often our voice contradicts our hands or actions! H.
↑ 22Genesis 27:27
Ver. 27. Plentiful. A word retained by the Sam. and Sept.
though lost in the Hebrew copies. Grotius. --- Hath blessed with abundance of fruit and odoriferous herbs; such as had probably been shut up in the drawers with Esau's robes. M.
↑ 27Genesis 27:28
Ver. 28. Wine. "By which Christ gathers together the multitude, in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood." S. Aug.
↑ 28Genesis 27:29
Ver. 29. Worship thee, with civil respect, (H.) as the Idumeans, Philistines and Moabites did, with respect to David, Solomon, and the Machabees, acknowledging their dominion, though reluctantly. --- With blessing. Thus Rebecca had not given her son a vain assurance. Isaac prays that God may ever by his protector, and avenge his cause. H.
↑ 29Genesis 27:30
Ver. 30. Fear. Sept. "Isaac was rapt into an ecstasy exceedingly great;" during which God explained to him the meaning of what had happened, that he might not think of revoking his blessing. S. Aug. q. 80. He permitted Isaac to be in darkness respecting this affair, that it might be more manifest, that the will of man had no part in preferring Jacob; (S. Chrys. hom. 53.) and that Esau might not direct his rage against his father. W.
↑ 30Genesis 27:33
Ver. 33. Be blessed. Thus he confirms what he had done; and shews that he bore no resentment towards his younger son, nor esteemed himself to be mocked, v. 12. H.
↑ 33Genesis 27:34
Ver. 34. Roared, through savage fury and envy of his brother.
Euseb. M.
↑ 34Genesis 27:35
Ver. 35. Deceitfully. Heb. slily; directed by wisdom, as the Chal.
has it. S. Chrysostom (de sacerd.) praises the address of Jacob on this occasion. C.
↑ 35Genesis 27:36
Ver. 36. Jacob. That is, a supplanter. Ch. --- My blessing. Both Isaac and Esau speak of this blessing, according to the dictates of nature. But God had disposed of it otherwise. The profane and cruel manners of Esau rendered him unworthy of it; and he could not maintain his natural claim, after having freely resigned it even with an oath. He seems to distinguish the blessing from the birth-right, though one necessarily followed the other. H.
↑ 36Genesis 27:37
Ver. 37. Brethren, or relations; (M.) for Isaac had no other children but these two. He never married any other woman but the beautiful and virtuous Rebecca. H.
↑ 37Genesis 27:39
Ver. 39. Moved; yet not so as to repent of what he had done; for Esau found no place of repentance in his father's breast, although with tears he had sought it, (Heb. xii. 17.) desiring to obtain the blessing of the first-born. H. --- In the fat, &c.
Idumea was a barren country; and hence some would translate the Heb. "far from the fat...shall they dwelling be; but thou shalt live by the sword." Thus min often means from, as well as for in: my flesh is changed on account of the want of oil, Ps. cviii.
24. Heb. a pinguedine. C. --- But all the ancient versions agree with the Vulg. So that we may say, the blessing of God made those barren regions supply the wants of the people abundantly; and so the Idumeans were to live by the sword, they would seize the rich habitations of their neighbours, (H.) and thus obtain a country rendered fertile without their labour.
M.
↑ 39Genesis 27:40
Ver. 40. Thy brother, in the reign of David, 2 K. viii. 14, and of the Machabees. Josep. Ant. xii . 17. --- Yoke. When the house of Juda shall rebel against the Lord, in the days of Joram, then the Idumeans shall regain their liberty for a time; (4 K. vii . 20.) to be subdued again after 800 years by John Hyrcan, the high priest. H. --- All the blessing of Esau tends to confirm that already given to his brother; so that the apostle seems to have considered it unworthy of notice. C. --- Jacob, in the mean time, never asserted his dominion; but still called Esau his lord, (C. xxxii. 4.) and behaved to him with the greatest deference.
H. --- Yet the Idumeans always hated the Jews, and assisted Titus to destroy Jerusalem. Joseph. T.
↑ 40Genesis 27:41
Ver. 41. My father. He has no regard for this mother. M. --- Her love for Jacob filled him with greater indignation; and he resolved to murder him, in order, perhaps, to revenge himself on both. Though this cruel resolution was taken in his heart, with full deliberation, he was not so careful to conceal his intentions; but his watchful mother discovered it, and by her prudence, preserved him from committing the external sin: and Jacob from falling a prey to this second Cain.
↑ 41Genesis 27:45
Ver. 45. Both my sons. Esau would have forfeited his life for murder. C. ix. 6. H. --- Perhaps she might also fear that Jacob, in his own defence, should in the very agony of death, give the aggressor a mortal wound; or that Esau, at least, would be forced to flee his country. Indeed, she considered him already as a lost man, on account of his marriage with the two women of Chanaan, and his savage manners. C.
↑ 45Genesis 27:46
Ver. 46. To live. Life will be a burden to me. M. --- She does not mention the principal reason of her desiring Jacob to go to Haran, for fear of grieving the tender heart of her husband; who, it seems, knew not the temper of Esau so well as she did.
C.
↑ 46License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses