He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
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He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
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And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
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And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Genesis 27:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 27:16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
- Hebrews 11:20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
- Romans 9:11-12 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his…
Gen 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
Ver. 23. So he blessed him.] {See Trapp on "Gen 27:25"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He discerned him not, because all his senses were…
He discerned him not, because all his senses were not only dulled with age and infirmity, but also held by Divine Providence, as theirs, Luk 24:16, for the bringing about his own purpose; so that it is no wonder he was so grossly deceived in the whole business.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he discerned him not,.... As he could not…
And he discerned him not,.... As he could not see, he could make no judgment by that sense; and, though he had his hearing, and thought the voice was like Jacob's, he might imagine there might be an alteration in Esau's voice, coming in haste and weary from the fields; yet, as there could not be any deception in his feeling, he thought it safest to trust to that, as it follows:
because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands; which could not in a short time become so naturally; it was more reasonable to think that Esau's voice should be altered and become like Jacob's, than that Jacob's hands should become like Esau's:
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so he blessed him; or intended and determined within himself to bless him, for the blessing was not given till afterwards; unless this is to be understood of a common blessing, congratulating him on the quick dispatch he made, and the great success he met with; and after this gave him the patriarchal blessing, which as yet he had not, being not thoroughly satisfied of him, as appears by what follows.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. And he discerned him not, because his…
Verse 23. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy] From this circumstance we may learn that Isaac's sense of feeling was much impaired by his present malady. When he could not discern the skin of a kid from the flesh of his son, we see that he was, through his infirmity, in a fit state to be imposed on by the deceit of his wife, and the cunning of his younger son.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. blessed] Anticipating Gen_27:26-29.
23. blessed] Anticipating Gen_27:26-29.
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