“And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.”
Then you will take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies. The end in view — the blessing — is the right end. The means — deception — are the wrong means. The goal of getting Jacob the blessing God had already promised him in Genesis 25:23 is not wrong; the method is. Romans 3:8 condemns the reasoning: let us do evil that good may come. The application: the rightness of a goal does not justify wrong means. God had already spoken the end; Rebekah and Jacob did not need to manufacture it.
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