“Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:”
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. The goats are the substitute for the wild game Esau will bring. The preparation of food to taste like what Isaac expects is the culinary element of the deception. The attention to detail — just the way he likes it — is the attention that is being devoted to making the fraud undetectable. The application: the care and effort that goes into a deception could have gone into something genuinely constructive. Rebekah's skills as a cook are being deployed in the service of fraud.
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