Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”
So Jacob went up to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, to tell of all your works.
creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord, and I will heal them.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.