Genesis 27:16

16 pelliculasque hedorum circumdedit manibus et colli nuda protexit

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 abiit et adtulit deditque matri paravit illa cibos sicut noverat velle patrem illius

15 et vestibus Esau valde bonis quas apud se habebat domi induit eum

16 pelliculasque hedorum circumdedit manibus et colli nuda protexit

17 dedit pulmentum et panes quos coxerat tradidit

18 quibus inlatis dixit pater mi et ille respondit audio quis tu es fili mi