Genesis 27:16

16 ad she put the skynnes vpon his hades and apon the smooth of his necke.

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 Iacob went ad fett them and brought them to his mother.And his mother made meate of them accordinge as his father loued

15 And she went and fett goodly rayment of hir eldest sonne Esau which she had in the house with hir and put them vpon Iacob hir yongest sonne

16 ad she put the skynnes vpon his hades and apon the smooth of his necke.

17 And she put ye meate and brede which she had made in the hode of hir sonne Iacob

18 And he went in to his father saynge: my father And he aswered: here am I who art thou my sonne?