John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 27:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father, etc.] 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: 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.

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