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Genesis 27:11-13
New English Translation
Genesis 27:11-13
New English Translation
11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin![a] 12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him[b] and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.” 13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me,[c] my son! Just obey me![d] Go and get them for me!”
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- Genesis 27:11 tn Heb “And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, ‘Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth [skinned] man.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Genesis 27:12 tn Heb “Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes like a mocker.” The Hebrew expression “I will be in his eyes like” means “I would appear to him as.”
- Genesis 27:13 tn Heb “upon me your curse.”
- Genesis 27:13 tn Heb “only listen to my voice.”
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