Genesis 27:16

16 She put the goatskins on his hands and 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 he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.

15 Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were there at the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them.

16 She put the goatskins on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.

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

18 When he came to his father, he said, "My father." And he answered, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"