get the
blessing instead of his brother, and showed him how it could be done.
Jacob was very fond of his mother; he wanted the blessing, but was
afraid his father would detect the deception and that it would bring a
curse instead of a blessing. But his mother told him she would take
all the blame and then Jacob consented to do as she told him.
Rebekah first sent Jacob to get some meat, which she cooked in the way
Isaac liked, and then she dressed him in some of Esau's clothes. Then
she put hairy skins on his hands and neck to make him feel like Esau if
Isaac should put his hands on him. Then she gave him the meat she had
prepared and sent him on his dishonest errand.
[Illustration: The hands are the hands of Esau.]
So Jacob went where his blind father was sitting and said, "My father."
And Isaac replied, "Here am I; who art thou, my son?" Then Jacob told
him that he was his son Esau, and that he had brought the food as he
had been asked to do. Isaac asked him how the meat could have been
found and prepared so quickly, and Jacob replied, "Because the Lord thy
God brought it to me."
Still Isaac was not satisfied and had him come nearer that he might
feel of him, but the disguise was good and Isaac said, "The voice is
Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." But before he ate
he made one more appeal. "Art thou," he asked, "my very son Esau?" and
Jacob, forced by the first lie to tell another and then another,
replied, "I am."
Isaac ate the food and then blessed Jacob, whom he supposed to be Esau.
He promised a great and prosperous future for him. People and nations
should serve him, and his brothers should bow down to him. Scarcely
had Jacob left his father, when Esau came back with the food his father
had asked him to bring and claimed the blessing.
When Isaac realized that he had been deceived he told Esau that he
could not recall the promises he had made to the one who had brought
him the food, and then Esau, who had sold his birthright, and now h
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.
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