Then you will take ¹  it to your father. Thus he will eat it ²  and ³  bless you before he dies.”

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

That night the Lord said to him, “Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. ¹  Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare ¹  them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.