Genesis 27:16

16 And she put the skins of the young goats over his hands and over 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 took [them], and brought [them] to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.

15 Then Rebekah took [some of] her older son Esau's best garments that [were] with her in the house, and she put [them] on Jacob her younger son.

16 And she put the skins of the young goats over his hands and over the smooth [part of] his neck.

17 And she put the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob, her son.

18 And he went to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I [am]. Who [are] you, my son?"