English Standard Version

Genesis 27:5-12 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,

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

7. ‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.’

8. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.

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

10. And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

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

12. Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”