Genesis 27:16

16 She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.

Genesis 27:16 in Other Translations

KJV
16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
ESV
16 And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
NLT
16 She covered his arms and the smooth part of his neck with the skin of the young goats.
MSG
16 She took the goatskins and covered his hands and the smooth nape of his neck.
CSB
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


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 she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
15 Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16 She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
17 Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
18 He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”

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