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;
16. and with the goatskins she covered up his hands and the hairless part of his neck.
17. Then she gave her son Jacob the dish and the bread she had prepared.
18. Going to his father, Jacob said, “Father!” “Yes?” replied Isaac. “Which of my sons are you?”
19. Jacob answered his father: “I am Esau, your firstborn. I did as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
20. But Isaac said to his son, “How did you get it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “The Lord, your God, directed me.”
21. Isaac then said to Jacob, “Come closer, my son, that I may feel you, to learn whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
22. So Jacob moved up closer to his father. When Isaac felt him, he said, “Although the voice is Jacob’s, the hands are Esau’s.”
23. (He failed to identify him because his hands were hairy, like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.)
24. Again Isaac said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And Jacob said, “I am.”