Jacob and Rebecca tricked Isaac so Jacob’s descendants could get the material blessing. But the Jewish People were still subjugated by Rome. In 70 CE the Romans ransacked and destroyed the ...

Of course, Jacob tricks his father, and that blessing goes to Jacob as well. Gen 27:28 is simple enough. Isaac intended to bless Esau that he will accumulate wealth.

Jacob responds, “I am,” and Isaac goes ahead with the blessing. From a straightforward reading of the text, it seems that Isaac’s doubt came from the sound of Jacob’s voice.

Jacob tricked Esau into selling his birthright for a bowl of soup and later with Rebekah’s help deceived Isaac, who had gone blind, by wearing an animal skin to simulate Esau’s hairiness ...

Jacob tricked his brother to take his first-born right, misled his father to take the blessing, and fooled his boss and father-in-law; that’s honesty? ‘G^d wanted it’ is no excuse.

First Jacob tricks Esau into trading his birthright for a bowl of soup, then Rebecca helps Jacob plot a coup by tricking Isaac into blessing him instead of his brother. Eventually Esau vows to ...

The answer is, of course, the cunning trickery that Jacob employed in order to deceive Isaac, his frail, ... (Toldot), Jacob tricked his father and broke his brother’s heart.

HAVE I missed something? In his piece on Alasdair Gray's introduction to Jonah, Micah, and Nahum in The Pocket Canons, Ron Ferguson writes, ''Isaac was a conman and a cheat. He tricked his own ...