Quotes About Deception

Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my sonís game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his fatherís presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your sonís game, so that you may bless me.”

But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.

Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”

So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Havenít you saved a blessing for me?”

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.

When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasnít it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Labanís flocks.

But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

Now Jacob heard that Labanís sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our fatherís expense.”

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

If he said, ëThe speckled will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ëThe streaked will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.

ëLook up,í he said, ëand see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her fatherís household idols.

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

Now you have gone off because you long for your fatherís house. But why have you stolen my gods?”