John Gill Commentary Genesis 27:16

"And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck." — Genesis 27:16 (ASV)

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 remarks, that goats' hair in the eastern countries is not much unlike human hair; see (1 Samuel 19:13 1 Samuel 19:16) .^F20

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: Apud Drusium in loc.
• F20: Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 51. col. 626.