Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 27:9-26 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

9. And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth:

10. Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.

11. And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am smooth.

12. If my father shall feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

13. And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.

14. He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.

15. And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her:

16. And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.

17. And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.

18. Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?

19. And Jacob said: I am Esau thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

20. And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son?

21. And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or not.

22. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of Esau.

23. And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made like to the elder. Then blessing him,

24. He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.

25. Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,

26. He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.