Genesis 27:9-17 ▼

9 Go to the flock and bring me two healthy young goats. I'll prepare some delicious food for your father, just the way he loves it.

10 Then you are to take it to your father so that he can eat and bless you before he dies.|

11 |But look!| Jacob pointed out to his mother Rebekah, |My brother Esau is a hairy man, but I'm smooth skinned.

12 My father might touch me and he'll realize that I'm deceiving him. Then, I'll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.|

13 |My son,| she replied, |let any curse against you fall on me. Just listen to me, then go and get them for me.|

14 So out he went, got them, and brought them to his mother, who then prepared some delicious food, just the way his father liked it.

15 Then Rebekah took some garments that belonged to her elder son Esau—the best ones available—and put them on her younger son Jacob.

16 She put some goat skins over his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

17 Then she handed the delicious food and bread that she had prepared to her son Jacob,