I found it pretty easy to uncover, in that there was no way was gonna fit in five squares, no matter what the answer was, especially since the answer probably ended in BOWL. The revealer may be wonky (to my ears, anyway), but the concept is fresh and fun to work out. As a result, Jacob became the spiritual leader of the family after Isaac's death and the heir of the promises of Abraham.

Jacob successfully received his father Isaac's blessing. Jacob pulled off his disguise by covering himself in hairy lamb skin so that when his blind father went to touch him, his smooth skin did not give him away as an imposter of his hairy brother. Jacob follows through with the plan to steal his brother's birthright by bringing the meal his father Isaac requested and pretending to be Esau. ' ' Rebekah then instructs Jacob in an elaborate deception through which Jacob pretends to be Esau, in order to steal from Esau his blessing from Isaac and his inheritance-which in theory Esau had already agreed to give to Jacob. When Esau goes to the field to hunt for venison to bring home, Rebekah says to her son Jacob, 'Behold, I heard thy father speak to thy brother Esau, saying: 'Bring me venison and prepare a savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death. In Genesis 27:5–7, Rebekah is listening while Isaac speaks to his son Esau. Throughout Genesis, Esau is frequently shown as being supplanted by his younger twin, Jacob (Israel). Jacob was a plain or simple man, depending on the translation of the Hebrew word tam (which also means 'relatively perfect man'). Among these qualities were his redness and noticeable hairiness.

Esau, a 'man of the field', became a hunter who had 'rough' qualities that distinguished him from his twin brother. The Christian New Testament alludes to him in the Epistle to the Romans and in the Epistle to the Hebrews. He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis and by the prophets Obadiah and Malachi. Esau is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible.

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