Genesis 27:12

WEB

¹²What 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.”

KJV

¹²My 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.

BSB

¹²What 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.”

FBV

¹²Maybe my father will notice when he touches me. Then it will look like I'm deceiving him and I'll bring a curse down on myself instead of a blessing.”

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 27:18

¹⁸‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

2 Corinthians 6:8

⁸by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,

Genesis 25:27

²⁷The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Job 12:16

¹⁶With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

²²Abstain from every form of evil.

Genesis 27:36

³⁶He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

Malachi 1:14

¹⁴“But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord^[+] a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says the LORD of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

Genesis 9:25

²⁵He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Genesis 27:21-22

²¹Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

²²Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Jeremiah 48:10

¹⁰“Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.