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Genesis 27:21

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.”

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Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”

So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, 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, that I may tell of all thy works.

Peace, peace, to the far and to the near, says the Lord; and I will heal him.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.