‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’

He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.”

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.

Then God said to Jacob, “Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”