¹⁹Jacob answered his father, “I’m Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done what you told me. Sit up and eat this meat I’ve hunted for you so that you may bless me.”

²⁰Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, Son?”

“The Lord your God brought it to me,” he answered.

²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come over here so that I can feel your skin, Son, ⸤to find out⸥ whether or not you really are my son Esau.” ²²So Jacob went over to his father. Isaac felt ⸤his skin⸥. “The voice is Jacob’s,” he said, “but the hands are Esau’s.” ²³He didn’t recognize Jacob, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. ²⁴“Are you really my son Esau?” he asked him.

“I am,” Jacob answered.

²⁵Isaac said, “Bring me some of the game, and I will eat it, Son, so that I will bless you.” Jacob brought it to Isaac, and he ate it. Jacob also brought him wine, and he drank it.

²⁶Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and give me a kiss, Son.” ²⁷He went over and gave him a kiss. When Isaac smelled his clothes, he blessed him and said,

“The smell of my son

is like the smell of open country

that the Lord has blessed.

²⁸May God give you dew from the sky,

fertile fields on the earth,

and plenty of fresh grain and new wine.

²⁹May nations serve you.

May people bow down to you.

Be the master of your brothers,

and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.

May those who curse you be cursed.

May those who bless you be blessed.”

³⁰Isaac finished blessing Jacob. Jacob had barely left when his brother Esau came in from hunting.

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