¹² What if my father touches me?^(A) I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse^(B) on myself rather than a blessing.”

¹³ His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me.^(C) Just do what I say;^(D) go and get them for me.”

¹⁴ So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.^(E)