¹² Perhaps my father will ^(A)feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring ^(B)a curse on myself and not a blessing.”

^18 (A)‘Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²² Abstain from every form of evil.

⁸ by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

³⁶ And Esau said, ^(A)“Is he not rightly named ^[a]Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

²⁷ So the boys grew. And Esau was ^(A)a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was ^(B)a ^[a]mild man, ^(C)dwelling in tents.

²¹ Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I ^(A)may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.” ²² So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”