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“The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b7b452728dcb2be265af883345accd0f9f0fd1fe7190e3191b04092b8dd7b0a3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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