Rebecca and Isaac pray to God since they want a child, and soon after Rebecca feels movement in her stomach, she gives birth to Esau, a hairy son, and Jacob, a smooth-skinned baby.

One day, when Esau, who became a hunter, and Jacob, who became a scholarly gentleman, are adults, Esau returns from the fields starving and feeling faint.

Jacob tricks Esau by offering his brother some stew in exchange for his birthright, which Esau gladly gives up.

Many years later, when Isaac is old and blind, he calls his oldest son, Esau, and asks him to prepare his favorite meal of venison, so that he may bless Esau.

Rebecca overhears this, and favoring Jacob over Esau, she helps Jacob prepare a meal for his father, and urges him to trick Isaac into giving him the blessing that is to to his brother’s.

Jacob dresses in Esau’s clothing and puts goat skin on his hands so that Isaac would think he is his hairy brother, and proceeds to trick his father into giving him the blessing.

Soon after Jacob leaves his father, Esau returns with the meal, ready to receive his blessing.

Upon hearing that Jacob has tricked him, Esau pleades with his father to give him a blessing, but Isaac cannot bless his son as he did Jacob, and angers Esau.

Hearing that Esau is angry enough to kill Jacob, Rebecca sends Jacob to her brother, Laban, and tells Isaac that she sent Jacob away to find a wife from outside of Canaan.

Isaac blesses Jacob as he leaves to find a wife, and Esau goes to the family of Ishmael and takes one of his daughters for a wife.