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Genesis 27:6

Rebekah [1] said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying,

Genesis 27:7

`Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'

Genesis 27:8

"Now therefore, my son, listen [1] to me [2] as [3] I command you.

Genesis 27:9

"Go now to the flock and bring [1] me two choice young [2] goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.

Genesis 27:10

"Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

Genesis 27:11

Jacob answered [1] his mother Rebekah, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy [2] man and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27:12

"Perhaps [1] my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver [2] in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing."

Genesis 27:13

But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only obey [1] my voice, and go, get them for me."

Genesis 27:14

So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved.

Genesis 27:15

Then Rebekah took the best [1] garments [2] of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

Genesis 27:16

And she put the skins of the young [1] goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Genesis 27:17

She also gave the savory food and the bread, which she had made, to [1] her son Jacob.

Genesis 27:18

Then he came to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

Genesis 27:19

Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Get [1] up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you [2] [3] may bless me."

Genesis 27:20

Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because [1] the LORD your God caused it to happen to me."

Genesis 27:21

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come close, that I [1] may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

Genesis 27:22

So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

Genesis 27:23

He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy [1] like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

Genesis 27:24

And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."

Genesis 27:25

So he said, "Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son's game, that I [1] [2] may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.

Genesis 27:26

Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come close and kiss me, my son."

Genesis 27:27

So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed [1] him and said, "See, the [2] smell of my son Is like the smell of a field which [3] the LORD has blessed;

Genesis 27:28

Now may God [1] give you of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness [2] of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine;

Genesis 27:29

May [1] peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you; Be [2] master of your brothers, And [3] may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed [4] be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you."

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