8. So listen, son, and do what I tell you.
9. Go out to our goats and bring me two young ones. I will prepare them the way your father loves them.
10. Then you will carry the food to your father, and he will bless you before he dies.”
11. But Jacob told his mother Rebekah, “My brother Esau is a hairy man. I am not hairy like him.
12. If my father touches me, he will know that I am not Esau. Then he will not bless me—he will curse me because I tried to trick him.”
13. So Rebekah said to him, “I will accept the blame if there is trouble. Do what I said. Go get the goats for me.”
14. So Jacob went out and got two goats and brought them to his mother. His mother cooked the goats in the special way that Isaac loved.
15. Then Rebekah took the clothes that her older son Esau loved to wear. She put these clothes on the younger son Jacob.
16. She took the skins of the goats and put them on Jacob’s hands and on his neck.
17. Then she got the food she had cooked and gave it to Jacob.
18. Jacob went to his father and said, “Father.” His father answered, “Yes, son. Who are you?”
19. Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your first son. I have done what you told me. Now sit up and eat the meat from the animals that I hunted for you. Then you can bless me.”
20. But Isaac said to his son, “How have you hunted and killed the animals so quickly?” Jacob answered, “Because the Lord your God allowed me to find the animals quickly.”
21. Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near to me so that I can feel you, my son. If I can feel you, I will know if you are really my son Esau.”
22. So Jacob went to Isaac his father. Isaac felt him and said, “Your voice sounds like Jacob’s voice, but your arms are hairy like the arms of Esau.”
23. Isaac did not know it was Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau’s. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
24. Isaac said, “Are you really my son Esau?” Jacob answered, “Yes, I am.”
25. Then Isaac said, “Bring me the food. I will eat it and bless you.” So Jacob gave him the food, and he ate it. Then Jacob gave him some wine, and he drank it.