Genesis 27:16

16 And she wrapped his hands about with little skins of (goat) kids, and covered the nakedness 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 (And so) He went, and brought it, and gave it to his mother. She made ready meats, as she knew that his father would have (And she prepared the meat, in the way that she knew that his father would like it),

15 and she clothed Jacob in [the] full good clothes of Esau, which she had at home with herself (which she had there at home with her).

16 And she wrapped his hands about with little skins of (goat) kids, and covered the nakedness of his neck;

17 and she gave to him the stew (and then she gave him the stew), and betook (to) him [the] loaves, which she had baked.

18 And when these were brought in, he said, My father! And he answered, I (am) here; (but) who art thou, my son?