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Isaac: 21 Please come over here so I can feel you, my son, so that I know it is really you, Esau.

22 So Jacob went over to his father, and Isaac reached out and felt his hands. He was a bit confused.

Isaac: Your voice sounds like Jacob’s, but your hands feel like Esau’s.

23 Because of the young goat’s fur on the back of his hands, his father did not recognize him, and so Isaac proceeded to bless Jacob instead of Esau.

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21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you,(A) my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

22 Jacob went close to his father Isaac,(B) who touched(C) him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23 He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau;(D) so he proceeded to bless him.

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