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Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
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‘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.’
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Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:
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Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.
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Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
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Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
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What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.”
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His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
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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.
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Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
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She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
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Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
