“And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.”
Isaac asked his son: how did you find it so quickly, my son? The LORD your God gave me success, he replied. The citation of God's name in the service of the lie is the most troubling element of Jacob's deception: he names the LORD as the explanation for the success of the fraud. Exodus 20:7 prohibits taking the name of the LORD in vain — using it falsely. Jacob's use of God's name to cover his lie is exactly that. The application: invoking God's blessing on a deception does not sanctify the deception; it adds blasphemy to the fraud.
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