5. So Esau went out in the field to hunt.Rebekah was listening as Isaac said this to his son Esau.
6. Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen, I heard your father talking to your brother Esau.
7. Your father said, ‘Kill an animal. Prepare some tasty food for me to eat. Then I will bless you before the Lord before I die.’
8. So obey me, my son. Do what I tell you.
9. Go out to our goats and bring me two young ones. I will prepare them just the way your father likes them.
10. Then you will take the food to your father. And he will bless you before he dies.”
11. But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “My brother Esau is a hairy man. I am smooth!
12. If my father touches me, he will know I am not Esau. Then he will not bless me. He will place a curse on me because I tried to trick him.”
13. So Rebekah said to him, “If your father puts a curse on you, I will accept the blame. Just do what I said. Go and get the goats for me.”
14. So Jacob went out and got two goats and brought them to his mother. Then she cooked them in the special way Isaac enjoyed.
15. She took the best clothes of her older son Esau that were in the house. She put them on the younger son Jacob.
16. She took the skins of the goats. And she put them on Jacob’s hands and neck.
17. Then she gave Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
18. Jacob went in to his father and said, “Father.”And his father said, “Yes, my son. Who are you?”
19. Jacob said to him, “I am Esau, your first son. I have done what you told me. Now sit up and eat some meat of the animal I hunted for you. Then bless me.”
20. But Isaac asked his son, “How did you find and kill the animal so quickly?”Jacob answered, “Because the Lord your God led me to find it.”
21. Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son. If I can touch you, I will know if you are really my son Esau.”
22. So Jacob came near to Isaac his father. Isaac touched him and said, “Your voice sounds like Jacob’s voice. But your hands are hairy like the hands of Esau.”
23. Isaac did not know it was Jacob, because his hands were hairy like Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.