Genesis 27:6-23

6Then she said to Jacob, ‘I heard your father say this to Esau:

7“Bring me some meat and prepare the food that I like to eat. When I have eaten it, I will give you my blessing. I will bless you in front of the Lord before I die.”

8Now my son, listen carefully and do as I tell you.

9Go out to the animals and bring two goats to me. They must be very good young goats. Then I will prepare some food that your father likes to eat. I will cook the meat in the way that he likes.

10Then take the food to your father. When he has eaten it, he will give you his blessing before he dies.’

11Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, ‘That will be difficult. Hair covers my brother's skin. But my skin does not have any hair.

12My father may touch me. Then he will know that I am deceiving him. He will not bless me. He will curse me instead.’

13Jacob's mother said, ‘My son, the curse will happen to me, not you. Do what I say. Go and get the things that I told you.’

14Jacob went and he got the goats. He brought them to his mother. She prepared some food in the way that Isaac liked to eat.

15Then Rebekah took some of Esau's best clothes that were in her house. She put them on Jacob, her younger son.

16She covered Jacob's hands with the skin from the goats. She also covered the part of his neck that had no hair.

17Then she gave to Jacob the food that Isaac liked to eat. And she gave him some bread that she had made.

18Jacob went to his father. He said, ‘My father.’ Isaac replied ‘Yes, my son. Who are you, Esau or Jacob?’

19Jacob said, ‘I am Esau. I am your firstborn son. I have done as you told me. Please sit up. Eat some of the meat from the wild animal that I killed. Then you can bless me.’

20Isaac asked his son, ‘My son, how did you find it so quickly?’ Jacob replied, ‘The Lord your God helped me find it.’

21Isaac said to Jacob, ‘Come near to me so that I can touch you, my son. Then I will know if you really are my son Esau.’

22Jacob went near to his father. Isaac touched him and he said, ‘The voice is Jacob's voice. But the hands are Esau's hands.’

23Isaac did not know that it was Jacob because he could feel the hair on Jacob's hands. They felt like Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.