And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father,.... Boldly and without trembling; which he could the better do, as his father could not see him, and so not capable of discerning any change in his countenance or outward behaviour:
and he felt him; some parts of his body, especially his hands:
and said, the voice [is] Jacob's voice; very like it, as if it was the same, as indeed it was:
but the hands [are] the hands of Esau; are like them, being hairy as they; or, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem,
"the feeling of the hands is as the feeling of the hands of Esau;''
they feel like them.