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Genesis 27:23

New American Bible - revised edition

(He failed to identify him because his hands were hairy, like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.)

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But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am smooth-skinned!

and with the goatskins she covered up his hands and the hairless part of his neck.

So Jacob moved up closer to his father. When Isaac felt him, he said, “Although the voice is Jacob’s, the hands are Esau’s.”

Again Isaac said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And Jacob said, “I am.”

By faith regarding things still to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.