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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."
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A Troubled Conscience
Jacob's initial response was not eager deception but fear. Commentators note he understood the gravity of his actions, fearing he would appear as a 'great deceiver' (as the Hebrew implies) to his blind father. He rightly feared that his actions could bring a curse, not a blessing, showing he had a functioning conscience even as his mother pressured him.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years, he was contemporary with his father. For sixty-one more years, his…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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Baptist
And Esau, altogether a man of the world, one very like the sons of other families around, took care to adorn himself in fine clothing. It seems alw…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My father peradventure will feel me For, though he could not see him, and so discern whether he had any hair or no o…
Rebekah knew that the blessing was intended for Jacob, and expected he would have it. But she wronged Isaac by deceiving him; she wronged Jacob by …
