Genesis 27
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1Senuit autem Isaac, et caligaverunt oculi ejus, et videre non poterat: vocavitque Esau filium suum majorem, et dixit ei: Fili mi? Qui respondit: Adsum.
1When 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.”
2Cui pater: Vides, inquit, quod senuerim, et ignorem diem mortis meæ.
2He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
3Sume arma tua, pharetram, et arcum, et egredere foras: cumque venatu aliquid apprehenderis,
3Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
4fac mihi inde pulmentum sicut velle me nosti, et affer ut comedam: et benedicat tibi anima mea antequam moriar.
4Make 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.”
5Quod cum audisset Rebecca, et ille abiisset in agrum ut jussionem patris impleret,
5Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6dixit filio suo Jacob: Audivi patrem tuum loquentem cum Esau fratre tuo, et dicentem ei:
6Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
7Affer mihi de venatione tua, et fac cibos ut comedam, et benedicam tibi coram Domino antequam moriar.
7‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.’
8Nunc ergo, fili mi, acquiesce consiliis meis:
8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
9et pergens ad gregem, affer mihi duos hædos optimos, ut faciam ex eis escas patri tuo, quibus libenter vescitur:
9Go 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.
10quas cum intuleris, et comederit, benedicat tibi priusquam moriatur.
10You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
11Cui ille respondit: Nosti quod Esau frater meus homo pilosus sit, et ego lenis:
11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
12si attrectaverit me pater meus, et senserit, timeo ne putet me sibi voluisse illudere, et inducam super me maledictionem pro benedictione.
12What 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.”
13Ad quem mater: In me sit, ait, ista maledictio, fili mi: tantum audi vocem meam, et pergens, affer quæ dixi.
13His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
14Abiit, et attulit, deditque matri. Paravit illa cibos, sicut velle noverat patrem illius.
14He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
15Et vestibus Esau valde bonis, quas apud se habebat domi, induit eum:
15Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
16pelliculasque hædorum circumdedit manibus, et colli nuda protexit:
16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
17deditque pulmentum, et panes, quos coxerat, tradidit.
17She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
18Quibus illatis, dixit: Pater mi? At ille respondit: Audio. Quis es tu, fili mi?
18He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
19Dixitque Jacob: Ego sum primogenitus tuus Esau: feci sicut præcepisti mihi: surge, sede, et comede de venatione mea, ut benedicat mihi anima tua.
19Jacob 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.”
20Rursumque Isaac ad filium suum: Quomodo, inquit, tam cito invenire potuisti, fili mi? Qui respondit: Voluntas Dei fuit ut cito occurreret mihi quod volebam.
20Isaac 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.”
21Dixitque Isaac: Accede huc, ut tangam te, fili mi, et probem utrum tu sis filius meus Esau, an non.
21Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
22Accessit ille ad patrem, et palpato eo, dixit Isaac: Vox quidem, vox Jacob est: sed manus, manus sunt Esau.
22Jacob 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.”
23Et non cognovit eum, quia pilosæ manus similitudinem majoris expresserant. Benedicens ergo illi,
23He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
24ait: Tu es filius meus Esau? Respondit: Ego sum.
24He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”
25At ille: Affer mihi, inquit, cibos de venatione tua, fili mi, ut benedicat tibi anima mea. Quos cum oblatos comedisset, obtulit ei etiam vinum. Quo hausto,
25He 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.
26dixit ad eum: Accede ad me, et da mihi osculum, fili mi.
26His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
27Accessit, et osculatus est eum. Statimque ut sensit vestimentorum illius fragrantiam, benedicens illi, ait: [Ecce odor filii mei sicut odor agri pleni, cui benedixit Dominus.
27He 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.
28Det tibi Deus de rore cæli et de pinguedine terræ abundantiam frumenti et vini.
28God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
29Et serviant tibi populi, et adorent te tribus: esto dominus fratrum tuorum, et incurventur ante te filii matris tuæ: qui maledixerit tibi, sit ille maledictus, et qui benedixerit tibi, benedictionibus repleatur.]
29Let 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.”
30Vix Isaac sermonem impleverat, et egresso Jacob foras, venit Esau,
30As 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.
31coctosque de venatione cibos intulit patri, dicens: Surge, pater mi, et comede de venatione filii tui, ut benedicat mihi anima tua.
31He 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.”
32Dixitque illi Isaac: Quis enim es tu? Qui respondit: Ego sum filius tuus primogenitus Esau.
32Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
33Expavit Isaac stupore vehementi: et ultra quam credi potest admirans, ait: Quis igitur ille est qui dudum captam venationem attulit mihi, et comedi ex omnibus priusquam tu venires; benedixique ei, et erit benedictus?
33Isaac 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.”
34Auditis Esau sermonibus patris, irrugiit clamore magno: et consternatus, ait: Benedic etiam et mihi, pater mi.
34When 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.”
35Qui ait: Venit germanus tuus fraudulenter, et accepit benedictionem tuam.
35He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
36At ille subjunxit: Juste vocatum est nomen ejus Jacob: supplantavit enim me en altera vice: primogenita mea ante tulit, et nunc secundo surripuit benedictionem meam. Rursumque ad patrem: Numquid non reservasti, ait, et mihi benedictionem?
36He 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?”
37Respondit Isaac: Dominum tuum illum constitui, et omnes fratres ejus servituti illius subjugavi; frumento et vino stabilivi eum: et tibi post hæc, fili mi, ultra quid faciam?
37Isaac 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?”
38Cui Esau: Num unam, inquit, tantum benedictionem habes, pater? mihi quoque obsecro ut benedicas. Cumque ejulatu magno fleret,
38Esau 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.
39motus Isaac, dixit ad eum: [In pinguedine terræ, et in rore cæli desuper,
39Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above.
40erit benedictio tua. Vives in gladio, et fratri tuo servies: tempusque veniet, cum excutias et solvas jugum ejus de cervicibus tuis.]
40You 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.”
41Oderat ergo semper Esau Jacob pro benedictione qua benedixerat ei pater: dixitque in corde suo: Venient dies luctus patris mei, et occidam Jacob fratrem meum.
41Esau 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.”
42Nuntiata sunt hæc Rebeccæ: quæ mittens et vocans Jacob filium suum, dixit ad eum: Ecce Esau frater tuus minatur ut occidat te.
42The 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.
43Nunc ergo, fili mi, audi vocem meam, et consurgens fuge ad Laban fratrem meum in Haran:
43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
44habitabisque cum eo dies paucos, donec requiescat furor fratris tui,
44Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
45et cesset indignatio ejus, obliviscaturque eorum quæ fecisti in eum: postea mittam, et adducam te inde huc: cur utroque orbabor filio in uno die?
45until 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?”
46Dixitque Rebecca ad Isaac: Tædet me vitæ meæ propter filias Heth: si acceperit Jacob uxorem de stirpe hujus terræ, nolo vivere.
46Rebekah 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?”
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