9. Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.
10. Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”
11. “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin!
12. My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”
13. So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”