Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
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Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
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And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
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And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said: 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain This declareth that he suspected something, yet God would…
This declareth that he suspected something, yet God would not have his decree altered.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his…
Gen 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob’s voice, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau.
Ver. 22. The voice is Jacob’s voice.] Jacob must name himself Esau, with the voice of Jacob. It is hard, if our tongues do not betray us, in spite of our clothes, as it did the wife of Jeroboam.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father,.... Boldly…
And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father,.... Boldly and without trembling; which he could the better do, as his father could not see him, and so not capable of discerning any change in his countenance or outward behaviour:
and he felt him; some parts of his body, especially his hands:
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and said, the voice is Jacob's voice; very like it, as if it was the same, as indeed it was:
but the hands are the hands of Esau; are like them, being hairy as they; or, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem,"the feeling of the hands is as the feeling of the hands of Esau;''they feel like them.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Of Esau. Thus, too often our voice contradicts our…
Of Esau. Thus, too often our voice contradicts our hands or actions! (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. Hands of Esau — Isaac’s words are, literally:…
22. Hands of Esau — Isaac’s words are, literally: The voice is voice of Jacob, and the two hands hands of Esau. The old man is dubious; there is something about it inexplicable. So he proceeds to bless him; not, however, without asking him once more, 24. Art thou my very son Esau — Hebrews, Thou this my son Esau?
With an obduracy and boldness unparalleled the supplanter says, I am.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. And Jacob went near] Luther says, “Had I…
22. And Jacob went near] Luther says, “Had I been Jacob, I should have dropped the dish.”
The voice is Jacob’s voice] Here is expressed the original source of Isaac’s hesitation. The touch of his arms dispels all doubt; cf. Gen_27:14; Gen_27:16.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 22, 23. And Jacob (with a boldness worthy…
Vers. 22, 23. And Jacob (with a boldness worthy of a better cause) went near unto Isaac his father; and he (i.e. Isaac) felt him (i.e. Jacob), and said, The voice is Jacob"s voice, but (literally, and) the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau"s hands: so he blessed him. Isaac must either have forgotten the heavenly oracle which announced the destinies of his sons at their birth, and distinctly accorded the precedence to Jacob, or he must not have attached the same importance to it as Rebekah, or he may have thought that it did not affect the transmission of the covenant blessing, or that it did not concern his sons no much as their descendants. It is hard to credit that Isaac either did not believe in the Divine announcement which had indicated Jacob as the heir of the promise, or that, believing it, he deliberately allowed paternal partiality to interfere with, and even endeavor to reverse, the will of Heaven.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Jacob went over to Isaac his father
Jacob went over to Isaac his father
"Jacob approached Isaac his father"
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The voice is Jacob's voice
Here Issac speaks of Jacob's voice as representing Jacob. AT: "You sound like Jacob" (See: Synecdoche)
but the hands are the hands of Esau
Here Issac speaks of Esau's hands as representing Esau. AT: "but your hands feel like Esau's hands" (See: Synecdoche)
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