Genesis 27:8-10

27:8 Now then, my son, do ¹  exactly what I tell you! ²  27:9 Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare ³  them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. 27:10 Then you will take ⁴  it to your father. Thus he will eat it ⁵  and ⁶  bless you before he dies.”

¹ tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”

² tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”

³ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative (with the prefixed conjunction) indicates purpose or result.

⁵ tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive. It carries forward the tone of instruction initiated by the command to “go…and get” in the preceding verse.

⁶ tn The form is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it carries the future nuance of the preceding verbs of instruction, but by switching the subject to Jacob, indicates the expected result of the subterfuge.

⁷ tn Heb “so that.” The conjunction indicates purpose or result.