Genesis 27:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

Genesis 27:23 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 11:20
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Genesis 27:16
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Romans 9:11-12
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-29)

Observe here, I. The art and assurance with which Jacob managed this intrigue. Who would have thought that this plain man could have played his part so well in a design of this nature? His mother having put him in the way of it, and encouraged him in it, he dexterously applied himself to those methods which he had never accustomed himself to, but had always conceived an abhorrence of. Note, Lying…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

18-27. he came unto his father--The scheme planned by the mother was to be executed by the son in the father’s bedchamber; and it is painful to think of the deliberate falsehoods, as well as daring profanity, he resorted to. The disguise, though wanting in one thing, which had nearly upset the whole plot, succeeded in misleading Isaac; and while giving his paternal embrace, the old man was roused…