Quotes about Deception
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
— Genesis 27:14
And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
— Genesis 27:15
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
— Genesis 27:16
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
— Genesis 27:17
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
— Genesis 27:19
So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
— Genesis 27:22
Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
— Genesis 27:23
Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
— Genesis 27:24
He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
— Genesis 27:31
But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
— Genesis 27:32
Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
— Genesis 27:33
So 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?”
— Genesis 27:36