21. Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come over here so that I can feel your skin, Son, ⌊to find out⌋ whether or not you really are my son Esau.”
22. So Jacob went over to his father. Isaac felt ⌊his skin⌋. “The voice is Jacob’s,” he said, “but the hands are Esau’s.”
23. He didn’t recognize Jacob, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
24. “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked him.“I am,” Jacob answered.
25. Isaac said, “Bring me some of the game, and I will eat it, Son, so that I will bless you.” Jacob brought it to Isaac, and he ate it. Jacob also brought him wine, and he drank it.
26. Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and give me a kiss, Son.”
27. He went over and gave him a kiss. When Isaac smelled his clothes, he blessed him and said,“The smell of my sonis like the smell of open countrythat the Lord has blessed.
28. May God give you dew from the sky,fertile fields on the earth,and plenty of fresh grain and new wine.
29. May nations serve you.May people bow down to you.Be the master of your brothers,and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.May those who curse you be cursed.May those who bless you be blessed.”
30. Isaac finished blessing Jacob. Jacob had barely left when his brother Esau came in from hunting.
31. He, too, prepared a good-tasting meal and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Please, Father, eat some of the meat I’ve hunted for you so that you will bless me.”