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Genesis 27:19-26 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

19. And Jacob said: I am Esau thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

20. And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son?

21. And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or not.

22. 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.

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

24. He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.

25. Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,

26. He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.

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