“11) And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: 12) My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.” (Genesis 27:11,12) Jacob was fearful of seeming to his father to be a deceiver. Yet he was a deceiver. Verse 19 — ”And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn (lie #1); I have done according as thou badest me (lie #2)….” Verse 20 — ”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 (lie #3).” Verse 23 — ”And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy (lie #4)….” Verse 24 — ”And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am (lie #5).” Verse 27—”And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field (lie #6) which the LORD hath blessed.”
“9) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10) I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10) Although Jacob later humbled himself under the hand of God, he did pay a high price for his deceitfulness. God gives us a warning in the book of Hebrews -- “12) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” (Hebrews 3:12-13)