Genesis

27 Now when Isaac don old and im eyes don really weak to fit see, e call E′sau im first son and tell-am say: “My son!” E answer say: “See me here!” 2 And e talk say: “I don old. I no know the day wey I go die. 3 So now, abeg, take your things wey you de use hunt, your arrow and your bow, and go inside bush and kill some bush animal for me. 4 Then cook the kind sweet food wey I de like and bring-am for me. Then I go chop-am so that I* go fit bless you before I die.”

5 But, Re·bek′ah de listen as Isaac de talk to E′sau im pikin. E′sau comot go inside bush to kill bush meat and bring-am. 6 Then Re·bek′ah tell im son Jacob say: “I just hear as your papa de talk to your brother E′sau, say, 7 ‘Bring some bush meat for me and cook sweet food for me. Then make I chop so that I fit bless you for front of Jehovah before I die.’ 8 Now, my son, listen well and do wetin I de tell you make you do. 9 Abeg, go the place wey all the animals dey, and bring the best two young goats from there, so that I go use them cook sweet food for your papa, just the way e de like-am. 10 And carry-am go give your papa make e chop so that e fit bless you before e die.”

11 Jacob tell Re·bek′ah im mama say: “E′sau my brother na man wey get hair for body, but my skin smooth. 12 What if my papa touch my body? Then for sure e go be like say I de insult-am, and I go bring curse ontop myself instead of blessing.” 13 So im mama tell-am say: “Make the curse wey suppose follow you, follow me my pikin, just do wetin I say make you do and go, bring them for me.” 14 So e go bring them give im mama, and im mama prepare sweet food just the way im papa de like-am. 15 After that one, Re·bek′ah collect the best cloths wey im senior son E′sau get, wey Re·bek′ah get for inside house, and wear-am for Jacob body wey be im junior pikin. 16 E still put the skins of the young goats ontop im hands and ontop the parts of im neck wey no get hair. 17 Then e give the sweet food and the bread wey e don prepare to im son Jacob.

18 So e go inside to meet im papa and talk say: “My papa!” and e answer say: “See me here! Who you be, my son?” 19 Jacob tell im papa say: “Na me E′sau your firstborn. I don do as you tell me. Abeg, get up, sitdown and chop some of my bush meat so that you* go bless me.” 20 With this one, Isaac tell im pikin say: “My pikin, how come you fit see-am quick like this?” E answer say: “Because na Jehovah your God bring-am to me.” 21 Then Isaac tell Jacob say: “Abeg come near me my pikin, so that I go fit touch you to know whether you really be my son E′sau or you be another person.” 22 So Jacob come near im papa Isaac, and Isaac touch-am, then e talk say: “The voice na the voice of Jacob, but the hands be like E′sau hands.” 23 E no fit know-am because im hands get hair like the hands of im brother E′sau. So e bless-am.

24 After that one, e ask say: “You be my pikin E′sau true-true?” and e answer say: “Yes, na me.” 25 Then e talk say: “My pikin, bring some of the bush meat for me make I chop, then I* go bless you.” With that one, e bring-am to Isaac and e chop, and e give-am wine and e drink. 26 Then Isaac im papa tell-am say: “Abeg come here and kiss me, my pikin.” 27 So e come near and kiss-am, and e smell the scent of im cloths. Then e bless-am and talk say:

“See, the scent of my pikin be like the scent of the bush wey Jehovah don bless. 28 Make the true God give you dew from the heavens and the better soil of the earth and plenty crops and new wine. 29 Make people serve you and make nations bow down for you. Make you be oga for your brothers, and make the sons of your mama bow down for you. Curse go follow everybody wey curse you and blessing go follow everybody wey bless you.”

30 Now as Isaac just bless Jacob finish, and as Jacob just de comot from where im papa Isaac dey, na that time im brother E′sau come back from bush. 31 So E′sau prepare sweet food too and bring-am to im papa, and e tell im papa say: “My papa, make you get up and chop some of your pikin bush meat, so that you* go bless me.” 32 So im papa Isaac tell-am say: “Who you be?” and e answer say: “I be your pikin, your firstborn, E′sau.” 33 Then Isaac start to really shake, so e talk say: “So na who kill bush meat come give me? I don already chop-am before you come, and I bless the person, and e go surely get the blessing!”

34 As E′sau hear wetin im papa talk, e start to cry with loud voice and really dey sad and tell im papa say: “Bless me, my papa, bless me too!” 35 But e talk say: “Your brother come deceive me so that e go fit get the blessing wey suppose be your own.” 36 Then E′sau talk say: “No be why im name be Jacob,* so that e fit take my position this two times? E don already take my right as firstborn, and now e don take my blessing!” E still talk say: “You no keep even one blessing for me?” 37 But Isaac answer E′sau say: “See, I don make-am your oga, and I don give-am all im brothers as im servants, and I don bless-am with grain and new wine to support-am. So my pikin, wetin remain wey I fit give you?”

38 E′sau tell im papa say: “Papa, so even one blessing no dey wey you fit give me? Bless me, my papa, bless me too!” So E′sau shout with loud voice and start to cry no be small. 39 So Isaac im papa answer-am say:

“See, you go live for the part of the earth wey no get better soil, and you no go get the dew from the heavens for up. 40 And na your sword you go use survive, and you go serve your brother. But when you no fit bear-am again, you go get your freedom.”*

41 But E′sau carry vex for mind for Jacob because of the blessing wey im papa don give-am, and E′sau continue to talk for im heart say: “The day wey my papa go die go soon reach.* After that one, I go kill Jacob my brother.” 42 When them tell Re·bek′ah wetin im senior son E′sau want do, quick-quick, e call im junior son Jacob and tell-am say: “See! Your brother E′sau de plan to kill you as pay back.* 43 Now my pikin, do as I talk. Make you ready and run comot go meet my brother La′ban for Ha′ran. 44 Stay with-am for some time, until your brother vex don come down, 45 until your brother don cool down for the vex wey e de vex for you, and e forget wetin you don do-am. Then I go send message make them call you from there. Why I go lose two of una for one day?”

46 After that one, Re·bek′ah continue to tell Isaac say: “My life don tire me because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob ever marry woman from the daughters of Heth wey be like this women wey de live for the land, wetin I de live for?”