¹⁹ Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn.^(A) I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game,^(B) so that you may give me your blessing.”^(C)

²⁵ Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”^(A)

Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.

²⁷ So he went to him and kissed^(A) him^(B). When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes,^(C) he blessed him and said,

³¹ He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”^(A)

⁹ “They are the sons God has given me here,”^(A) Joseph said to his father.

Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless^(B) them.”

¹⁵ Then he blessed^(A) Joseph and said,

²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel,^(A) and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing^(B) appropriate to him.

Moses Blesses the Tribes^(A)

33 This is the blessing^(B) that Moses the man of God^(C) pronounced on the Israelites before his death.