Monday in Season after Pentecost

31Verse 31. Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32Verse 32. Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” 33Verse 33. So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.” 34Verse 34. And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 35Verse 35. The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

1Verse 1. When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied. 2Verse 2. “Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death. 3Verse 3. Take your weapons — your quiver and bow — and go out into the field to hunt some game for me. 4Verse 4. Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.” 5Verse 5. Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back, 6Verse 6. Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, 7Verse 7. ‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’ 8Verse 8. Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you. 9Verse 9. Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father— the kind he loves. 10Verse 10. Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” 11Verse 11. Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned. 12Verse 12. What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.” 13Verse 13. His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.” 14Verse 14. So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved. 15Verse 15. And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob. 16Verse 16. She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17Verse 17. Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made. 18Verse 18. So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?” 19Verse 19. Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.” 20Verse 20. But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied. 21Verse 21. Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?” 22Verse 22. So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23Verse 23. Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him. 24Verse 24. Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.” 25Verse 25. “Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank. 26Verse 26. Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.” 27Verse 27. So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed. 28Verse 28. May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth — an abundance of grain and new wine. 29Verse 29. May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”