Toldot 84

(6) Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying,(7) ‘Bring me some game and prepare a dish for me to eat, that I may bless you, with יהוה’s approval, before I die.’(8) Now, my son, listen carefully as I instruct you.(9) Go to the flock and fetch me two choice kids, and I will make of them a dish for your father, such as he likes.(10) Then take it to your father to eat, in order that he may bless you before he dies.”(11) Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am smooth-skinned.(12) If my father touches me, I shall appear to him as a trickster and bring upon myself a curse, not a blessing.”(13) But his mother said to him, “Your curse, my son, be upon me! Just do as I say and go fetch them for me.”(14) He got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a dish such as his father liked.(15) Rebekah then took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were there in the house, and had her younger son Jacob put them on;(16) and she covered his hands and the hairless part of his neck with the skins of the kids.(17) Then she put in the hands of her son Jacob the dish and the bread that she had prepared.(18) He went to his father and said, “Father.” And he said, “Yes, which of my sons are you?”(19) Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your first-born; I have done as you told me. Pray sit up and eat of my game, that you may give me your innermost blessing.”(20) Isaac said to his son, “How did you succeed so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because your God יהוה granted me good fortune.”(21) Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer that I may feel you, my son—whether you are really my son Esau or not.”(22) So Jacob drew close to his father Isaac, who felt him and wondered. “The voice is the voice of Jacob, yet the hands are the hands of Esau.”(23) He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; and so he blessed him.(24) He asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And when he said, “I am,”(25) he said, “Serve me and let me eat of my son’s game that I may give you my innermost blessing.” So he served him and he ate, and he brought him wine and he drank.(26) Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come close and kiss me, my son”;(27) and he went up and kissed him. And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that יהוה has blessed.(28) “May God give you
Of the dew of heaven and the fat of the earth,
Abundance of new grain and wine.(29) Let peoples serve you,
And nations bow to you;
Be master over your brothers,
And let your mother’s sons bow to you.
Cursed be they who curse you,
Blessed they who bless you.”

(6) And Rivqa spoke to Ya῾aqov her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to ῾Esav thy brother, saying, (7) Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death. (8) Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. (9) Go now to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids of the goats; and I will make them into savoury food for thy father, such as he loves: (10) and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. (11) And Ya῾aqov said to Rivqa his mother, Behold, ῾Esav my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: (12) my father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. (13) And his mother said to him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. (14) And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury food, such as his father loved. (15) And Rivqa took the best clothes of her eldest son ῾Esav, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Ya῾aqov her younger son: (16) and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: (17) and she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Ya῾aqov. (18) And he came to his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I: who art thou, my son? (19) And Ya῾aqov said to his father, I am ῾Esav thy firstborn; I have done according as thou didst tell me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. (20) And Yiżĥaq said to his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because, the Lord thy God sent me good speed. (21) And Yiżĥaq said to Ya῾aqov, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou art really my son ῾Esav or not. (22) And Ya῾aqov went near to Yiżĥaq his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Ya῾aqov’s voice, but the hands are the hands of ῾Esav. (23) And he recognised him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother ῾Esav’s hands: so he blessed him. (24) And he said, Art thou really my son ῾Esav? And he said, I am. (25) And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. (26) And his father Yiżĥaq said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. (27) And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelt the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed: (28) therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: (29) let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be those that curse thee, and blessed be those that bless thee.