Rebekah and Jacob Plot Deception

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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

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‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’

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Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

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Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

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Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

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Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

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What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

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His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

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So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

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And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

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She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

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Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.