Genesis 27:6-29

6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

7‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’

8Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

9Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

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

11“But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin!

12My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

13So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

14So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

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

16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

18He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”

19Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”

20But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied.

21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”

22So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”

23He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

24Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob replied.

25Isaac said, “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.

26Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”

27So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying, “Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the Lord has blessed.

28May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”