Now, will you notice, Rebekah overheard that, and
Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau's son.
And Esau went into the field to hunt
for venison and to bring it.
And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying,
Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau
thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, make me
savory meat that I may eat, and bless
thee before the Lord before my death.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according
to that which I command thee.
Now, this is the plot and plan of
Rebekah.
And it's deceit, it's absolutely trickery, and it
cannot be condoned on any basis whatsoever.
And God's recording it as history, not that
He condones it.
He condemns it, and we're going to see
that.
You remember the things that are being done
here, and you'll see chickens come home to
roost for Jacob.
Now she says to him, You obey me,
you go now to the flock, and fetch
me from thence two good kids of the
goats, and I will make them savory meat
for thy father, such as he love it.
And thou shalt bring it to thy father,
that he may eat, and that he may
bless thee before his death.
And Jacob said to Rebekah's mother, Behold, Esau
my brother's a hairy man, and I'm a
smooth man.
Now, he was not only an outdoor man,
red man, but he was a hairy man.
He was, I would think, the first hippie
that there was.
He grew hair everywhere, and I'm a smooth
man.
My father peradventure will feel me, and I
shall seem to him as a deceiver.
Not only seem a deceiver, he is a
deceiver.
And I shall bring a curse upon me
and not a blessing.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me
be thy curse, my son.
Only obey my voice, and go fetch me
them.
And he went and fetched, and brought them
to his mother.
And his mother made savory meat, such as
his father loved.
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest
son Esau, which were with her in the
house, put upon Jacob her younger son, and
she put the skins of the kids of
the goats upon his hand, and upon the
smooth of his neck.
And she gave the savory meat and the
bread which she'd prepared under the hand of
her son Jacob.
And friends, I can't help but comment on
this.
Now, she put the skin of the kid
of the goat on the back of his
neck and on the back of his hand,
so when his father'd feel him, why, you'd
think that it was Esau.
Not only did he feel him.
Friends, you couldn't help but smell him.
And I want to say that apparently the
deodorant that Esau was using was not very
potent at all.
Fact of the matter is, I think he's
like the whimsical story I heard about two
men working in a very tight place, and
one of them finally said to the other,
and he says, I think that the deodorant
of one of us has quit working.
And the other fellow says, must be you,
because I don't use any.
And friends, I don't think that Esau used
any, and I'm not sure that he had
a shower very often.
This man not only felt hairy, but he
smelt like a hippie too, by the way.