King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 27:12
“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.”
Verse in context — Genesis 27
And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
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.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them].
And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
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