Genesis 27:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.””
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 27:12 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
- Genesis 25:27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
- Genesis 27:21Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
- Genesis 27:36So 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?”
- Deuteronomy 27:18‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Job 12:16True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
- Jeremiah 48:10Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
- Malachi 1:14“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 the nations.
- 2 Corinthians 6:8through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
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