Genesis 27:6-23

6Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau saying,

7‘Bring me some game and prepare me a delicious meal that I may eat and bless you in Adonai’s presence before my death.’

8So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I am commanding you.

9Go now to the flock and bring me two good young goats from there, so that I may prepare them as a delicious meal for your father—that he’ll love.

10Then you’ll bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

11But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I’m a smooth man.

12Perhaps my father will touch me, and he’ll take me for a mocker, and I’ll bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

13Then his mother said to him, “Let your curse fall on me, my son. Just listen to me, and go, get them for me.”

14So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a delicious meal that his father would love.

15Rebekah also took her elder son Esau’s favorite clothes that were with her in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob,

16along with the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the hairless part of his neck.

17She put the delicious meal and the bread that she had prepared in the hand of Jacob her son.

18Then he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “I’m here. Who are you, my son?”

19Then Jacob said to his father, “I’m your firstborn, Esau. I’ve done just what you said to me. Sit up, please, and eat some of my wild game so that your soul may bless me.”

20Then Isaac said to his son, “How in the world were you able to find it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Adonai your God made it happen for me.”

21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can feel you my son—whether or not you really are my son Esau.”

22So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac, and he felt him. Then he said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice but the hands are Esau’s hands.”

23He did not recognize him because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. So he blessed him.