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.”
13. So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”
14. So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.
15. Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16. She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.
17. Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.
18. He went to his father and said, “My father!” Isaac replied, “Here I am. Which are you, my son?”
19. Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”
20. But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied.
21. Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”
22. So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”
23. He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
24. Then he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” “I am,” Jacob replied.
25. Isaac said, “Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.
26. Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”
27. So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying,“Yes, my son smellslike the scent of an open fieldwhich the Lord has blessed.
28. May God give youthe dew of the skyand the richness of the earth,and plenty of grain and new wine.