“And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.”
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: do not marry a Canaanite woman. The blessing given now is the formal, public blessing over Jacob's departure — the same covenant blessing Isaac gave in chapter 27, now given with full knowledge of who is receiving it. The command not to marry a Canaanite woman is the covenant instruction that Esau violated. The application: the blessing that was received through deception is now confirmed openly. What was taken through fraud is ratified through the father's explicit will.
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