¹⁰ Then you must take it to your father and he will eat it so that he may bless you before his death.” ¹¹ Then Jacob said to his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man. ¹² Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes as a mocker, and he will bring upon me a curse and not a blessing.”