1. When Isaac was so old that his eyesight had failed him, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” he replied.
2. Isaac then said, “Now I have grown old. I do not know when I might die.
3. So now take your hunting gear—your quiver and bow—and go out into the open country to hunt some game for me.
4. Then prepare for me a dish in the way I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
5. Rebekah had been listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. So when Esau went out into the open country to hunt some game for his father,
6. Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father tell your brother Esau,
7. ‘Bring me some game and prepare a dish for me to eat, that I may bless you with the Lord’s approval before I die.’
8. Now, my son, obey me in what I am about to order you.
9. Go to the flock and get me two choice young goats so that with these I might prepare a dish for your father in the way he likes.
10. Then bring it to your father to eat, that he may bless you before he dies.”
11. But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am smooth-skinned!
12. Suppose my father feels me? He will think I am making fun of him, and I will bring on myself a curse instead of a blessing.”
13. His mother, however, replied: “Let any curse against you, my son, fall on me! Just obey me. Go and get me the young goats.”
14. So Jacob went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared a dish in the way his father liked.
15. Rebekah then took the best clothes of her older son Esau that she had in the house, and gave them to her younger son Jacob to wear;