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[Biggie]

How do Jacob and Rebekah deceive Isaac into getting his blessing? I know Isaac was blind but what exactly happened?

[jimwalton]

I would love to talk but I'm a little confused by your question. You obviously read Genesis 27 (or I should hope you did), and you read that Esau was a densely hairy man and Jacob was mostly smooth-skinned. So they deceived Isaac, with his poor eyesight, by wrapping goatskins around Jacob's arms so his arms would feel like Esau's. We are not to think of our European/American goats, whose skins would be far too dense with hair for any deception like this. Instead, it's the camel-goat of the Middle East, whose black, more silk-like hair was more like human hair. The Romans used such hair as a substitute for human hair.

But I don't feel like I'm addressing your question. What is it you want to know?