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.
What if my father touches me and feels that I'm trying to trick him? Then he'll see me as a deceiver, and I'll end up with a curse instead of a blessing.
Jacob is worried that his plan to deceive his father Isaac will backfire and result in punishment rather than the blessing he's trying to steal.
📚 Historical Context
This occurs when Jacob's mother Rebekah devised a plan for Jacob to impersonate his older twin brother Esau to receive Isaac's blessing. Since Esau was hairy and Jacob was smooth-skinned, Jacob feared his blind father might discover the deception through touch. In ancient times, a father's blessing was considered irrevocable and carried tremendous spiritual and material significance.
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