Discovery BoxGenesis 27:32-38 
Context27:32 His father Isaac asked, 1 “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” 2 he replied, “Esau!” 27:33 Isaac began to shake violently 3 and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. 4 He will indeed be blessed!”
27:34 When Esau heard 5 his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. 6 He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!” 27:35 But Isaac 7 replied, “Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away 8 your blessing.” 27:36 Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! 9 He has tripped me up 10 two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
27:37 Isaac replied to Esau, “Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?” 27:38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” 11 Then Esau wept loudly. 12
1 tn Heb “said.”
2 tn Heb “and he said, ‘I [am] your son, your firstborn.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “and Isaac trembled with a great trembling to excess.” The verb “trembled” is joined with a cognate accusative, which is modified by an adjective “great,” and a prepositional phrase “to excess.” All of this is emphatic, showing the violence of Isaac’s reaction to the news.
4 tn Heb “Who then is he who hunted game and brought [it] to me so that I ate from all before you arrived and blessed him?”
5 tn The temporal clause is introduced with the temporal indicator and has the infinitive as its verb.
6 tn Heb “and he yelled [with] a great and bitter yell to excess.”
7 tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (Isaac) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Or “took”; “received.”
9 tn Heb “Is he not rightly named Jacob?” The rhetorical question, since it expects a positive reply, has been translated as a declarative statement.
10 sn He has tripped me up. When originally given, the name Jacob was a play on the word “heel” (see Gen 25:26). The name (since it is a verb) probably means something like “may he protect,” that is, as a rearguard, dogging the heels. This name was probably chosen because of the immediate association with the incident of grabbing the heel. Esau gives the name “Jacob” a negative connotation here, the meaning “to trip up; to supplant.”
11 tn Heb “Bless me, me also, my father.” The words “my father” have not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “and Esau lifted his voice and wept.”
