Genesis 27:21
Good News Translation
Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come closer so that I can touch you. Are you really Esau?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Contemporary English Version
"My son," Isaac said, "come closer, where I can touch you and find out if you really are Esau."

New American Bible
Isaac then said to Jacob, “Come closer, my son, that I may feel you, to learn whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.

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

Come.

Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Isaiah 57:19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

may feel.

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.

Context
Isaac Blesses Jacob
20And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came quickly in my way: 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.…
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 27:22
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.

Genesis 27:20
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