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Jacob Tricks Isaac

Genesis 27:15-31

27:15. She put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her,

27:16. and she put the little skins of the kids around his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.

27:17. She gave him the savory meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.

'''27:18. Which when he had carried in, he said: "My father?" But he answered: "I hear. Who are you, my son?"'''

27:19. Jacob said, "I am Esau, your firstborn; I have done as you commanded me; arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

'''27:20. Isaac said to his son, "How could you find it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "It was the will of God, that what I sought came quickly in my way."'''

27:21. Then Isaac said, "Come hither, that I may feel you, my son, and may prove whether you are my son Esau or not."

27:22. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said, "The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of Esau."

'''27:23. He did not recognize him, because his hairy hands made him similar to the elder. Then blessing him,'''

'''27:24. he said, "Are you my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."'''

27:25. Then he said, "Bring me the meats of your hunting, my son, that my soul may bless you. When they were brought and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,

27:26. he said to him, "Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son."

'''27:27. He came near and kissed him. Immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord has blessed.'''

27:28. "May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine,

27:29. "and let peoples serve you, and tribes worship you; be lord of your brethren, and let your mother's children bow down before you. Cursed be he that curses you, and let him that blesses you be filled with blessings."

27:30. Isaac had scarcely ended his words, when, Jacob being now gone out abroad, Esau came,

27:31. and brought in to his father meats, made of what he had taken in hunting, saying, "Arise, my father, and eat of your son's venison; that your soul may bless me."

Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, D.D. published by International Publishing Company, 1894