27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. 1 When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back, 2 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau, 27:7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat 3 it and bless you 4 in the presence of the Lord 5 before I die.’ 27:8 Now then, my son, do 6 exactly what I tell you! 7 27:9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare 8 them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 27:10 Then you will take 9 it to your father. Thus he will eat it 10 and 11 bless you before he dies.”
27:11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin! 12 27:12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him 13 and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.” 27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, 14 my son! Just obey me! 15 Go and get them for me!”
27:14 So he went and got the goats 16 and brought them to his mother. She 17 prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it. 27:15 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. 27:16 She put the skins of the young goats 18 on his hands 19 and the smooth part of his neck. 27:17 Then she handed 20 the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.