Génesis 27:12

12 Si mi padre me toca, se dará cuenta de que quiero engañarlo, y esto hará que me maldiga en vez de bendecirme.

Génesis 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 27:12

My father peradventure will feel me
For, though he could not see him, and so discern whether he had any hair or no on him, yet, suspecting him by his voice, he might call him to him to feel him, as he did; for Jacob understood his mother right, that he was to represent his brother Esau in the transaction of this affair: and I shall seem to him as a deceiver;
one that imposes upon another and causes him to err, leads him to say or do wrong things: and not only appear as one, but be really one, and even a very great one, as the doubling of the radical letters in the word shows; yea, the worst of deceivers, a deceiver of a parent, of one that was both aged and blind: and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing;
and he might justly fear, that should he be found out, it would so provoke his father, that instead of blessing him, he would curse him, see ( Deuteronomy 27:18 ) .

Génesis 27:12 In-Context

10 Tú se lo llevarás para que se lo coma, y así él te dará su bendición antes de morirse.

11 Pero Jacob le dijo a su madre:—Hay un problema: mi hermano Esaú es muy velludo, y yo soy lampiño.

12 Si mi padre me toca, se dará cuenta de que quiero engañarlo, y esto hará que me maldiga en vez de bendecirme.

13 —Hijo mío, ¡que esa maldición caiga sobre mí! —le contestó su madre—. Tan solo haz lo que te pido, y ve a buscarme esos cabritos.

14 Jacob fue a buscar los cabritos, se los llevó a su madre, y ella preparó el guiso tal como le gustaba a su padre.