12My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse on me, and not a blessing.


In Context

9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for your father, such as he loves:

10 And you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death.

11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse on me, and not a blessing.

13 And his mother said to him, On me be your curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

Genesis 27:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:12My 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:12What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:12If my father shall feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:12My 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:12My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall be in his sight as one who mocks him, and I shall bring a curse on me, and not a blessing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:12My 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:12My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:12What 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.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:12it 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;'