Genesis 27:16

16 She took the goatskins and covered his hands and the smooth nape 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 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother and she cooked a hearty meal, the kind his father loved so much.

15 Rebekah took the dress-up clothes of her older son Esau and put them on her younger son Jacob.

16 She took the goatskins and covered his hands and the smooth nape of his neck.

17 Then she placed the hearty meal she had fixed and fresh bread she'd baked into the hands of her son Jacob.

18 He went to his father and said, "My father!" "Yes?" he said. "Which son are you?"