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And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
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And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son; and Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring it.
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And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying,
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Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD, before my death.
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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, according to that which I command thee.
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Go now to the flock, and bring me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
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And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
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And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
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My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
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And his mother said to him, upon me [be] thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.
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And he went, and took, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother made savory meat, such as his father loved.
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And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which was with her in the house, and put it upon Jacob her younger son:
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And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth part of his neck:
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And she gave the savory meat, and the bread which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
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And he came to his father, and said, My father: And he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?
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And Jacob said to his father, I [am] Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
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And Isaac said to his son, How [is it] that thou hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought [it] to me.
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And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou [art] my very son Esau, or not.
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And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau.
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And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: So he blessed him.
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And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I [am].
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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 ate: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
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And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
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And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
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Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
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Let people 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] every one that curseth thee, and blessed [be] he that blesseth thee.
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And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
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And he also had made savory meat, and brought it to his father; and said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
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And Isaac his father said to him, Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy son, thy first-born Esau.
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And Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, Who? where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be blessed.
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And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.