“And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.”
After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. The timing is precise: Jacob has barely left when Esau arrives. The gap between the departure of the deceiver and the arrival of the deceived is the narrative's way of showing how close the deception came to being exposed. The application: the timing of what we do and what follows is in God's hands. The gap between Jacob leaving and Esau arriving was just enough.
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