# he smelled the smell of his clothes and blessed him

It can be made explicit that the clothes smelled like Esau's clothes. AT: "he smelled his clothes and they smelled like Esau's clothes, so Isaac blessed him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

# he smelled

"Isaac smelled"

# the smell

"the scent"

# blessed him

"then he blessed him." This refers to the formal blessing a father pronounces on his children.

# See, the smell of my son

The word "see" is used as an emphatic figure of speech to mean "it is true." AT: "Truly, the smell of my son"

# that Yahweh has blessed

Here the word "blessed" means that Yahweh has caused good things to happen to the field and it has become fruitful. AT: "that Yahweh has caused to be very productive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/isaac]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/kiss]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/jacob]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/bless]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]