Rebekah said to her son Jacob,(A) “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’(B) Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:(C) Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats,(D) so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.(E) 10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing(F) before he dies.”

11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man(G) while I have smooth skin. 12 What if my father touches me?(H) I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse(I) on myself rather than a blessing.”

13 His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me.(J) Just do what I say;(K) 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.(L) 15 Then Rebekah took the best clothes(M) of Esau her older son,(N) 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.(O) 17 Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

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And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:

16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

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