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."


In Context

9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."

11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.

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

13 His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."

14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.

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 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;'

The American 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 on me, and not a blessing.