3. So now, I pray you, take your weapons, your [arrows in a] quiver and your bow, and go out into the open country and hunt game for me,
4. And prepare me appetizing meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat of it, [preparatory] to giving you my blessing [as my firstborn] before I die.
5. But Rebekah heard what Isaac said to Esau his son; and when Esau had gone to the open country to hunt for game that he might bring it,
6. Rebekah said to Jacob her younger son, See here, I heard your father say to Esau your brother,
7. Bring me game and make me appetizing meat, so that I may eat and declare my blessing upon you before the Lord before my death.
8. So now, my son, do exactly as I command you.
9. Go now to the flock, and from it bring me two good and suitable kids; and I will make them into appetizing meat for your father, such as he loves.
10. And you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat and declare his blessing upon you before his death.
11. But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Listen, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.
12. Suppose my father feels me; I will seem to him to be a cheat and an imposter, and I will bring [his] curse on me and not [his] blessing.
13. But his mother said to him, On me be your curse, my son; only obey my word and go, fetch them to me.
14. So [Jacob] went, got [the kids], and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared appetizing meat with a delightful odor, such as his father loved.
15. Then Rebekah took her elder son Esau's best clothes which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
16. And she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
17. And she gave the savory meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
18. So he went to his father and said, My father. And he said, Here am I; who are you, my son?
19. And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done what you told me to do. Now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may proceed to bless me.
20. And Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found the game so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God caused it to come to me.
21. But Isaac said to Jacob, Come close to me, I beg of you, that I may feel you, my son, and know whether you really are my son Esau or not.
22. So Jacob went near to Isaac, and his father felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.