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Genesis 27:15 (NIV)
Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
Genesis 27:16 (NIV)
She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
Genesis 27:17 (NIV)
Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
Genesis 27:18 (NIV)
He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
Genesis 27:19 (NIV)
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Genesis 27:20 (NIV)
Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The Lord your God gave me success,” he replied.
Genesis 27:21 (NIV)
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
Genesis 27:22 (NIV)
Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Genesis 27:23 (NIV)
He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him.
Genesis 27:24 (NIV)
“Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.
Genesis 27:25 (NIV)
Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.
Genesis 27:26 (NIV)
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”
Genesis 27:27 (NIV)
So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.
Genesis 27:28 (NIV)
May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.
Genesis 27:29 (NIV)
May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
Genesis 27:30 (NIV)
After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
Genesis 27:31 (NIV)
He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Genesis 27:32 (NIV)
His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
Genesis 27:33 (NIV)
Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
Genesis 27:34 (NIV)
When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
Genesis 27:35 (NIV)
But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
Genesis 27:36 (NIV)
Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob ? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
Genesis 27:37 (NIV)
Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
Genesis 27:38 (NIV)
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Genesis 27:39 (NIV)
His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.