Story of Jacob with the blessing of Isaac

The second capital in the chronology of the patriarch Jacob portrays how Jacob obtains the blessing of his father Isaac by devious means to the detriment of his older twin brother Esau (Gen 27:1-29).

His mother Rebecca devises a fraudulent plan:
While Esau was sent out hunting by his father and kills a deer (on the east and north sides of the capital), Rebecca, the mother of the twins, prepares a young goat in order to bring Jacob before his half-blind father dressed in the animal furs of his brother. Isaac takes Jacob for his first-born and favourite son Esau and blesses him instead. When Esau returns from the hunt, he realizes the error, whose consequences, however, he can do nothing to reverse.

Also depicted on this capital are single figures identifiable by their inscriptions: ESAV / ISAAC / IACOB / REBECCA.

The capital currently found in the cloister is not the original but has been replaced by a copy after the original was looted in 1997.

animal 1997 twin blessing brother copy detriment Esau deer ESAV father first-born favorite son fur goat inscription hunt Isaac Jacob mother plan patriarch Rebecca