What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself, not a blessing. The fear of being caught — of appearing to be tricking him — is the nearest thing to moral awareness Jacob shows here. The word tricking is the word the chapter will use for what actually happens. Jacob knows what he is about to do is deceptive; his concern is the personal consequence. The application: awareness that an action is deceptive, combined with concern only for personal consequences rather than for the wrong done to others, is not the beginning of repentance.

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