Genesis 27:12 “What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a dec…”

Genesis 27:12

What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

World English Bible

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

American Standard Version

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

Geneva Bible 1599

My father may possibly feele me, and I shall seem to him to be a mocker: so shall I bring a curse vpon me, and not a blessing.

Darby Translation

My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall be in his sight as one who mocks [him], and I shall bring a curse on me, and not a blessing.

Young's Literal Translation

it may be my father doth feel me, and I have been in his eyes as a deceiver, and have brought upon me disesteem, and not a blessing;'

Bible in Basic English

If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing.

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Cross references

“feel”

Job 12:16 2 Corinthians 6:8 Genesis 27:22

Job 12:16 · BSB

True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

2 Corinthians 6:8 · BSB

through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

Genesis 27:22 · BSB

So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

“a deceiver”

Genesis 27:36 Genesis 25:27 1 Thessalonians 5:22

Genesis 27:36 · BSB

So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

Genesis 25:27 · BSB

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 · BSB

Abstain from every form of evil.

“and I shall”

Deuteronomy 27:18 Malachi 1:14 Genesis 9:25 Jeremiah 48:10

Deuteronomy 27:18 · BSB

‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Malachi 1:14 · BSB

“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among t…

Genesis 9:25 · BSB

he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Jeremiah 48:10 · BSB

Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

Also

Genesis 27:21–22

Genesis 27:21–22 · BSB

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

13His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

Read Genesis 27