World English Bible
Genesis 27:12
“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.”
Verse in context — Genesis 27
10
You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.
11
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
12
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.
13
His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.
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He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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