Jacob Fears Being a Deceiver Before Isaac

Midrash Aggadah, Genesis 27:12

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"Perhaps my father will feel me" (Genesis 27:12). This is what Scripture says: "The wise man, his eyes are in his head" (Ecclesiastes 2:14) — "and I shall be in his eyes as a deceiver." Like "they are vanity, a work of delusions" (Jeremiah 10:15). "And I shall bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing" — the blessing that he wishes to give me, in the end he will not give it to me.

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DeceptionPatriarchsJacobMusicSin

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