Rebekah and Jacob Plot Deception

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she said to her son Ya'akov, "Listen! I heard your father telling 'Esav your brother,

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'Bring me game, and make it tasty, so I can eat it. Then I will give you my blessing in the presence of ADONAI, before my death.'

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Now pay attention to me, my son; and do what I tell you.

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Go to the flock, and bring me back two choice kids. I will make it tasty for your father, the way he likes it;

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and you will bring it to your father to eat; so that he will give his blessing to you before his death."

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Ya'akov answered Rivkah his mother, "Look, 'Esav is hairy, but I have smooth skin.

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Suppose my father touches me -he'll know I'm trying to trick him, and I'll bring a curse on myself, not a blessing!"

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But his mother said, "Let your curse be on me. Just listen to me, and go get me the kids!"

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So he went, got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared them in the tasty way his father loved.

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Next, Rivkah took 'Esav her older son's best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on Ya'akov her younger son;

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and she put the skins of the goats on his hands and on the smooth parts of his neck.

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Then she gave the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Ya'akov.