Genesis 27:16

16 She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part 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 Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

16 She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

17 Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

18 So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”