Genesis 27:16

16 She put the skins from the young goats on his hands and on the back of his neck.

Genesis 27:16 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 27:16

And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,
&c.] Upon both his hands, and the whole of them that was bare, that he might appear to be like Esau: and upon the smooth of his neck;
which in Esau was covered with hair as his hands; and Hiscuni, a Jewish writer ^F19, observes, that the skins of goats are rough, and like the skin of a hairy man; and so Bochart

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 remarks, that goats' hair in the eastern countries is not much unlike human hair; see ( 1 Samuel 19:13 1 Samuel 19:16 ) .
F19 Apud Drusium in loc.
F20 Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 51. col. 626.

Genesis 27:16 In-Context

14 He went and got them and brought them to his mother. She prepared a good-tasting meal, just the way his father liked it.

15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau's good clothes, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

16 She put the skins from the young goats on his hands and on the back of his neck.

17 Then she gave her son Jacob the good-tasting meal and the bread she had prepared.

18 He went to his father and said, "Father?" "Yes?" he answered. "Who are you, Son?"