27:11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, “and I have smooth skin! 5 27:12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him 6 and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.” 27:13 So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, 7 my son! Just obey me! 8 Go and get them for me!”
27:14 So he went and got the goats 9 and brought them to his mother. She 10 prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.
1 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative (with the prefixed conjunction) indicates purpose or result.
2 tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive. It carries forward the tone of instruction initiated by the command to “go…and get” in the preceding verse.
3 tn The form is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it carries the future nuance of the preceding verbs of instruction, but by switching the subject to Jacob, indicates the expected result of the subterfuge.
4 tn Heb “so that.” The conjunction indicates purpose or result.
3 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.
4 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.”
5 tn Heb “upon me your curse.”
6 tn Heb “only listen to my voice.”
6 tn The words “the goats” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
7 tn Heb “his mother.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “she” in the translation for stylistic reasons.