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Then Jacob said to his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.

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."

Then his mother said to him, "Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice—go and get them for me."

So he went and took them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.

And she put the skins of the young goats over his hands and over the smooth part of his neck.

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

And Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you may bless me."

Then Isaac said to his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Yahweh your God caused me to find it."

And Jacob drew near 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."

And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him.

Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."

And he drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, "Look, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed!

And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, immediately after Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came back from his hunting.

He too prepared tasty food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat from the wild game of his son, that you may bless me."

And Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, "Bless me as well, my father!"

Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?"

And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Your home shall be from the fatness of the land, and from the dew of heaven above.

But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be that when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.