My older brother always had a pickup because he worked for a paper company. Depending on his mood and frame of mind, he would sometimes let me use it, but most times he wouldn’t. You see, I didn’t have a driver’s license. If I wanted to procure it, I would wait till he was asleep, go into his room and whisper, “Can I use your truck?” He would grunt something unintelligible, and being me, I interpreted that guttural sound as a yes. Anyone leaving keys in vehicles in those days made deception possible.
Jacob pulled that fast-one on his father by using his father’s blindness to deceive him. There was really no need to do that and the consequences would plague Jacob the rest of his natural days.
The Bible has much to say about deception because that is a dangerous human habit:
For “He who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.
You understand that we are all capable of falling into this sin of deceit, but believers are warned to stay away from it.
Give it some thought.
Gary