Genesis 27:6-17 ▼

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

7 ‘Bring me some game and prepare a delicious meal for me, so that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.’

8 So now, my son, listen to me as I command you.

9 Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, so that I may prepare them as a delicious meal for your father, such as he loves.

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

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

12 Perhaps my father will touch me, then I will be like a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

13 But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get the goats for me.”

14 So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made a delicious meal such as his father loved.

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

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

17 She also gave the delicious meal and the bread which she had made to her son Jacob.