Catholic Public Domain Version
"If my father should lay hands on me and perceive it, I am afraid lest he think me willing to mock him, and I will bring a curse upon myself, instead of a blessing.” "
— Genesis 27:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“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? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."”
“My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.””
“If my father should 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.”
“If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing.”
“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.”
and go straight to the flock, and bring me two of the best young goats, so that from them I may make meat for your father, such as he willingly eats.
Then, when you have brought these in and he has eaten, he may bless you before he dies.”
He answered her: “You know that my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am smooth.
If my father should lay hands on me and perceive it, I am afraid lest he think me willing to mock him, and I will bring a curse upon myself, instead of a blessing.”
And his mother said to him: “Let this curse be upon me, my son. Yet listen to my voice, and go directly to bring what I said.”
He went out, and he brought, and he gave to his mother. She prepared the meats, just as she knew his father liked.
And she clothed him with the very fine garments of Esau, which she had at home with her.