A Wikipedia article on Jacob, recording how his mother Rebecca disguised him in his brother Esau's clothing, with goatskins over his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin, so that their aging, nearly blind father Isaac would mistake him for Esau and give him the firstborn's blessing. The article quotes Isaac's suspicion, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau," and names Govert Flinck's 1638 painting of the same title as one of several artistic treatments of the episode. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the disguise and blessing episode and its standing as a recurring artistic subject, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and describing an actual painting of that episode. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Esau, Figures This source names Esau directly: "Rebecca disguised him in his brother Esau's clothing, with goatskins over his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin, so that their aging, nearly blind father Isaac would mistake him for Esau and give..."
Source Jacob (Wikipedia)
Isaac, Figures This source names Isaac directly: "that their aging, nearly blind father Isaac would mistake him for Esau and give him the firstborn's blessing."
Source Jacob (Wikipedia)
Jacob, Figures This source names Jacob directly: "A Wikipedia article on Jacob, recording how his mother Rebecca disguised him in his brother Esau's clothing, with goatskins over his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin, so that their aging, nearly..."
Source Jacob (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Figures, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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