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(A)But Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying, ‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat and bless you in the presence of Yahweh before my death.’ So now, my son, (B)listen to my voice [a]as I command you. Go now to the flock and [b]get for me two choice [c]young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves. 10 Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.” 11 Then Jacob [d]answered his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother is a (C)hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 (D)Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a mocker in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.” 13 But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only (E)listen to my voice, and go, get them for me.” 14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother made a savory dish such as his father loved. 15 Then Rebekah took the [e]best (F)garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And she put the skins of the [f]young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 She also gave the savory dish and the bread, which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:8 Lit according to what
  2. Genesis 27:9 Lit take
  3. Genesis 27:9 Lit kids of goats
  4. Genesis 27:11 Lit said to
  5. Genesis 27:15 Or choice, cf. 3:6; lit desirable
  6. Genesis 27:16 Lit kids of the goats