Quotes about Recognition
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
- Genesis 27:21
So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
- Genesis 27:22
Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
- Genesis 27:23
Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
- Genesis 27:24
But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
- Genesis 27:32
When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
- Genesis 28:16
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
- Genesis 31:47
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:27
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
- Genesis 38:15
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
- Genesis 38:26
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
- Genesis 42:7
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
- Genesis 42:8