Genesis 27:6-17 ▼

6 And Rebecca spake vnto Iacob her sonne, saying: Beholde, I haue hearde thy father talkyng with Esau thy brother, and saying:

7 Bring me venison, and make me daintie meate, that I may eate, and blesse thee before the Lorde, afore my death.

8 Nowe therfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I comaunde thee.

9 Get thee to the flocke, and bryng me thence two good kyddes fro the goates, and I wyll make of them pleasaunt meates for thy father, such as he loueth.

10 And thou shalt bryng it to thy father that he may eate, and that he may blesse thee before his death.

11 Then said Iacob to Rebecca his mother: Beholde, Esau my brother is a heary man, and I am smoothe:

12 My father shall peraduenture feele mee, and I shall seeme vnto hym as though I went about to begyle hym, and so shall I bryng a curse vpon me, and not a blessyng.

13 And his mother sayde vnto him, Upon me be the curse my sonne: only heare my voyce, and go and fetche me them.

14 And Iacob went, and fet them, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made pleasaunt meate, such as she knewe his father loued.

15 And Rebecca fet goodly rayment of her eldest sonne Esau, whiche were in the house with her, and put them vpon Iacob her younger sonne:

16 And she put the skynnes of the kiddes vpon his handes, and vpon the smoothe of his necke.

17 And she put that pleasaunt meate and bread, whiche she had prepared, in the hande of her sonne Iacob.