CHAP. XXVII.
The Epistle on Saturday the second weeke in Lent.AND Isaac was old, and his eyes were dimme, and he could not see: and he called Esau his elder sonne, and said to him: My sonne? Who answered: Here I am. 2To whom his father: Thou seest, quoth he, that I am old, and know not the day of my death. 3Take thy instruments, thy quiuer, and bow, and goe abroad: and when thou hast taken any thing by hunting, 4make me broth therof, as thou knowest I like, and bring that I may eate, and my soule may blesse thee before I dye. 5Which when Rebecca had heard, and he was gone into the field to fulfil his fathers commandement, 6she said to her sonne Iacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, and saying to him: 7Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eate, and blesse thee in the sight of our Lord before I dye. 8Now therfore, my sonne, assent to my counsel: 9and goe thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth: 10which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may blesse thee before he dye. 11To whom he answered: Thou knowest that Esau my brother is hairie man, and I am smooth: 12if my father shal feele me, and perceaue it, [1] I feare lest he wil thinke I would haue deluded him, and I shal bring vpon me a curse for a blessing. 13To whom his mother said: This curse, my sonne, light vpon me, only heare thou my voice, and goe, fetch me the things which I haue said. 14He went, and brought, and gaue them to his mother. She dressed meats, euen as she knew his father liked. 15And she did on him the garments of Esau verie good, which she had at home with her: 16and the litle skinnes of the kids she put about his hands, and couered the bare of his neck. 17And she gaue him the broth, and deliuered him bread that she had baked. 18Which when he had caried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I heare. Who art thou my sonne? 19And Iacob said: ″ I am thy first begotten Esau: I haue done as thou didest command me: arise, sit, and eate of my hunting, that thy soule may blesse me. 20And againe Isaac to his sonne: How couldest thou, said he, find it so quickly, my sonne? Who answered: [2] It was the wil of God that that which I would came quickly in my way: 21And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feele thee my sonne, and