◄ Genesis 27:22 ►
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Good News Translation
Jacob moved closer to his father, who felt him and said, "Your voice sounds like Jacob's voice, but your arms feel like Esau's arms."

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
Jacob went closer. His father touched him and said, "You sound like Jacob, but your hands feel hairy like Esau's."

New American Bible
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.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.

The voice.

Context
Isaac Blesses Jacob
…21And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no. 22He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.23And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him,…
Cross References
Genesis 27:12
If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

Genesis 27:21
And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.

Genesis 27:23
And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him,

Genesis 27:21
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