Genesis 27:13

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Genesis 27:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

12 What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

13 His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

14 So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

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