Genesis 27:6-23

6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I’ve just heard your father speaking to your brother Esau.

7He said, ‘Bring me some wild game, and prepare a good-tasting meal for me to eat so that I will bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’

8Now listen to me, Son, and do what I tell you.

9Go to the flock, and get me two good young goats. I’ll prepare them as a good-tasting meal for your father, just the way he likes it.

10Then take it to your father to eat so that he will bless you before he dies.”

11Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “My brother Esau is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.

12My father will feel ⌞my skin⌟ and think I’m mocking him. Then I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

13His mother responded, “Let any curse on you fall on me, Son. Just obey me and go! Get me ⌞the young goats⌟.”

14He went and got them and brought them to his mother. She prepared a good-tasting meal, just the way his father liked it.

15Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s good clothes, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

16She put the skins from the young goats on his hands and on the back of his neck.

17Then she gave her son Jacob the good-tasting meal and the bread she had prepared.

18He went to his father and said, “Father?” “Yes?” he answered. “Who are you, Son?”

19Jacob answered his father, “I’m Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done what you told me. Sit up and eat this meat I’ve hunted for you so that you may bless me.”

20Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, Son?” “The Lord your God brought it to me,” he answered.

21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come over here so that I can feel your skin, Son, ⌞to find out⌟ whether or not you really are my son Esau.”

22So Jacob went over to his father. Isaac felt ⌞his skin⌟. “The voice is Jacob’s,” he said, “but the hands are Esau’s.”

23He didn’t recognize Jacob, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.