Day 21- Genesis 27

In this chapter, Isaac calls for Esau and instructs him to go out and hunt.  Esau is to catch some wild game and cook some of Isaac's favourite food, and Isaac would in response give Esau his blessing.
Rebekah hears this and convinces Jacob to deceive his father and take his brother's blessing by dressing him in goatskin and cooking Isaac's favourite food.
The whole time that Jacob is in there with Isaac, Isaac suspects that it is not really Esau.  He questions him 4 times. (vs 18, 20,21, 22-24)

In Isaac's blessing for Jacob, God's earlier promises to Rebekah are fulfilled.

"May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you.  Be lord over your brothers; and may the sons of your mother bow down to you." vs 29

Esau returns only to discover that the birthright he sold to Jacob had really gone to Jacob.  Because of this, Esau decides that he will kill Jacob after mourning for his father.  Hearing this, Rebekah sends Jacob to live with her brother to save his life.

Once again, we see the disfunction in this family.  In chapter 25, it was about the favouritism, in this chapter, its about the lack of communication in the marriage.  It is also about the favouritism because Isaac and Rebekah pit their sons against each other.  Rebekah must have told Isaac when God told her that "the older will serve the younger."  Isaac knew what God had spoken about his sons.  He probably should have listened to that as a message to acknowledge Jacob as the one who should receive the birthright.
Rebekah should have trusted that God would follow through on his promises, instead of teaching Jacob to be deceitful.
Isaac and Rebekah taught Esau and Jacob deception and dissension, which in the end leads to a chasm between the two brothers and eventually dissension between the nations of their descendants.