24And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
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Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-29)Observe here, I. The art and assurance with which Jacob managed this intrigue. Who would have thought that this plain man could have played his part so well in a design of this nature? His mother having put him in the way of it, and encouraged him in it, he dexterously applied himself to those methods which he had never accustomed himself to, but had always conceived an abhorrence of. Note, Lying…
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