10. Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
11. Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
12. What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”
13. His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
14. So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
15. Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16. She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
17. Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
18. He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
19. Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
20. Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The Lord your God gave me success,” he replied.
21. Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
22. Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
23. He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him.
24. “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.
25. Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.
26. Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”
27. So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.