1. When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau replied.
2. Isaac said, “Since I am so old, I could die at any time.
3. Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.
4. Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.”
5. Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,
6. Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
7. ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.’
8. Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!
9. Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.
10. Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”
11. “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin!
12. My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”