Genesis 27:1-22 ▼

1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyesight was failing so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, |My son?| He said to him, |Here I am.|

2 He said, |Look, I am old now. I do not know the day of my death.

3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt down a wild animal for me.

4 Make me the tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.|

5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went out to the field to hunt for a wild animal and bring it back to his father.

6 And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, |Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

7 Bring me a wild animal and prepare for me some tasty food, that I may eat it and bless you in my presence before my death.'

8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two choice young goats. I will prepare them in a tasty way for your father, the way he likes it.

10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.|

11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, |Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.|

13 His mother said to him, |Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.|

14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.

15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

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

17 She handed the tasty food and the bread which she had prepared to her son Jacob.

18 He came to his father, and said, |My father?| He said, |Here I am. Who are you, my son?|

19 Jacob said to his father, |I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please sit up and eat what I hunted so that you can bless me.|

20 Isaac said to his son, |How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?| He said, |Because your God gave me success.|

21 Isaac said to Jacob, |Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.|

22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, |The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.|