Genesis 27:1-25

In Genesis 27:1-25 Jacob Cheats the Lord

In Genesis 27:1-25, we read that Isaac was old and his eyesight was weak. He told his eldest son, Esau, to go hunting and to prepare the kill as savory meat; such as he loves, so that he may bless his son.

Rebecca, Esau and Jacob's mother, overheard the conversation between father and son and instructed Jacob, the younger son, to bring two goats, which she would prepare as savory meat for his father, in order to take the blessing. He was to wear the goatskins in order to fool his father into believing that he was his brother. Jacob was afraid the plan would fail and that he would be cursed, but his mother reassured him.

So, they did as they planned, and Jacob took the food to his father. Isaac wondered that the task had been accomplished so quickly. He also wondered that he was hearing Jacob's voice and not Esau's. He could not see well, so he wanted to touch his son. Although the voice was Jacob's, the skin he felt was Esau's, so he took the meat, and blessed Jacob unknowingly.