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hile I have s mooth skin. 12 What if my father touches me? I would appear
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to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a
blessing.”
13 His mother said to him, “My son, let the c urse fall on me. Just do what I
say; go and get them for me.”
14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she pre
pared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. 15 Then Rebekah took
the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put
them on her younger son Jacob. 16 She also covered his h
ands and the smooth
part of his neck with the goatskins. 17 Then she handed to her son Jacob the
tasty food and the bread she had made.
18 He went to his father and said, “My father.”
“Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you
told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me
your blessing.”
20 Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?”
“The Lord your God gave me success,” he replied.
21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know
whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
22 Jacob went close to his father I saac, who touched him and said, “The
voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23 He did not
recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he
proceeded to bless him. 24 “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked.
“I am,” he replied.
25 Then he said, “My son, b
ring me some of your game to eat, so that I may
give you my blessing.”
Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he
drank. 26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”
27 So he went to him and k
issed him. When I saac c aught the s mell of his
clothes, he blessed him and said,
“Ah, the smell of my son
is like the smell of a field
that the Lord has blessed.
28 May God give you heaven’s dew
and earth’s richness —
an abundance of grain and new wine.
29 May nations serve you
and peoples bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed
and those who bless you be blessed.”
30 After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s
presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. 31 He too prepared some
tasty food and b
rought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please
sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
32 His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?”
“I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
33 Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game
and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him — and
indeed he will be blessed!”
34 When Esau h
eard his father’s words, he b
urst out with a loud and bitter
cry and said to his father, “Bless me — me too, my father!”
35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
36 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob a ? This is the second time he has
taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my bless
ing!” Then he a
sked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
a 36
Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he takes advantage of or he
deceives.