Quotes about Identity
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
- Genesis 27:11
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
- Genesis 27:16
So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
- Genesis 27:18
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
Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
- Genesis 30:13
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:27
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Genesis 32:28
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 32:29