Toldot, Aliyah 5 תולדות, חמישי

He [Yitzchok] made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

They got up early in the morning, and they each swore to the other. Yitzchok sent them away and they left in peace.

On that day Yitzchok’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug; and they said to him, We have found water.

He named it Shiva. Therefore the city is called Beer Sheva until this very day.

Eisov was forty years old and he married Yehudis, the daughter of Be’eri, the Chittite and Bosmas, the daughter of Eylon the Chittite.

They were rebellious of spirit to Yitzchok and Rivkah.

And when Yitzchok grew old his eyesight faded and he could not see. He called Eisov, his elder son, and said to him, My son. [Eisov] said to him, Here I am.

[Yitzchok] said, Behold, if you please, I am old. I do not know the day of my death.

Now [therefore] please take your equipment, your sword and your bow, and go out to the field and trap [deer] for me.

Make it into a tasty dish for me, the way I like it, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul will bless you before I die.

Rivkah had [over]heard what Yitzchok said to his son, Eisov. Eisov went out to the field to trap [deer] to bring it [home.]

Rivkah said to her son Yaakov, saying, Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Eisov, saying,

Bring back [deer] for me and make it into a tasty dish for me and I will eat. I will then bless you in the presence of Adonoy before I die.

Now my son, listen to me, concerning that which I command you.

Go, please, to the sheep and take for me from there two choice young goats, and I will make [from] them a tasty dish for your father as he likes.

You will [then] bring it to your father to eat, in order that he will bless you before he dies.

Yaakov said to Rivkah, his mother, Behold, Eisov, my brother is a hairy person and I am a smooth-skinned person.

Suppose my father touches me. I will be in his eyes as an impostor. I will bring upon myself a curse—not a blessing.

His mother said to him, Your curse shall be upon me, my son; but listen to me. Go bring them to me.

He went, took [them], and brought [them] to his mother. His mother made a tasty dish as his father liked.

Rivkah took the garments of Eisov, her elder son, [the garments] that were precious [to him] that were in her keeping in the house, and put them on Yaakov, her younger son.

The skins of the young goats she placed on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

She placed the tasty dish and the bread which she had made, in the hand of Yaakov, her son.

He came to his father and said, My father. [Yitzchok] said, Here I am. Who are you my son?

Yaakov said to his father, It is I, Eisov your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Rise, if you please, sit up and eat of my trapping so that your soul will bless me.

Yitzchok said to his son, How is it that you found it so quickly my son? He [Yaakov] said, Because Adonoy, your God, brought it about for me.

Yitzchok said to Yaakov, Come close, if you please, and let me touch you, my son. Are you my son Eisov or not?

Yaakov came close to Yitzchok, his father, and he [Yitzchok] touched him. He said, The voice is the voice of Yaakov, but the hands are the hands of Eisov.

He [Yitzchok] did not recognize him because his hands were like those of Eisov, his brother—they were hairy—and [thus] he blessed him.

He said, Are you indeed my son, Eisov? [Yaakov] said, I am.

He said, Bring it close to me and I will eat from my son’s trappings, so that my soul will bless you. He brought it close to him and he ate. He [then] brought him wine and he drank.

His father Yitzchok said to him, Come close to me and kiss me, my son.

He came close and kissed him. He [Yitzchok] smelled the fragrance of his garments, and he blessed him. He said, See, my son’s fragrance is like the fragrance of a field blessed by Adonoy.