23And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
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By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
(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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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…
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