And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
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Gill's Exposition
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother,.... Being timorous lest he should do an ill thing, and be accounted a deceiver, and bring a curse upon himself:
behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man; covered…
- Isaac Blessing His Sons The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one years more his son Jacob remains under the…
Rebekah is here contriving to procure for Jacob the blessing which was designed for Esau; and here,
I. The end was good, for she was directed in this intention by the oracle of God, by which she had…
Cambridge Bible
And Jacob said, &c. Jacob objects to the proposal, not because of its deceitfulness, but because of the risk of detection.
a hairy man See Gen 25:25 (E).