Knowing The Word in Genesis 27:14-29, Isaac Blesses Jacob

14 So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved. 15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. [Rebekah does all the work for this scheme. That Isaac would be fooled by these devices seems absurd, unless his sense of touch and mind are as dim as his sight.]

18 So he went in to his father and said [deferentially], “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” [The plan may be harder to pull of than originally thought!] 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.” [Someone should protest that he speaketh too much! “Firstborn” is an anagram of “bless”. Jacob later gets paid back with a firstborn he does not want (29:26)] 20 But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the Lord your God granted me success.” [This lame response elicits a reaction Jacob did not intend.] 21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.” 22 So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” [Thanks to his mother’s costuming, Jacob’s verbosity, which almost gives him away, is set aside.] 23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him. 24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.” [Isaac keeps giving Jacob the opportunity to tell the truth, and Jacob keeps going with his deception all the way to the blessing bank.] 25 Then he said, “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. [The wine may have ensured Isaac’s faculties were dulled.]

26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” 27 So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said,

“See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field [open land where Esau would hunt] that the Lord has blessed! 28 May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. [The settled and cultivated land more appropriate to Jacob than Esau, anticipating the Promised Land.] 29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!” [The phraseology of this verse follows the birth oracle and also anticipates Joseph and his brothers.]