Quotes about Deception
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
— Genesis 26:9
“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
— Genesis 26:10
Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,
— Genesis 27:5
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
— Genesis 27:10
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
— Genesis 27:11
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
— Genesis 27:12
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
— Genesis 27:14
And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
— Genesis 27:15
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
— Genesis 27:16
Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
— Genesis 27:17
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
— Genesis 27:19
So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
— Genesis 27:22