And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
16. the skins of the kids ] An extraordinary comment upon the description of Esau as “a hairy man” (Gen 25:25).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Upon the two naked parts of his body, which were most likely to be discovered. As for his face, it is more than probable from his age, which was the same with Esaus, Gen 26:34, that nature had given him a covering like Esaus.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,…. 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 s, observes, that the skins of goats are rough, and like the skin of a hairy man; and so Bochart t remarks, that goats’ hair in the eastern countries is not much unlike human hair; see 1Sa 19:13.
s Apud Drusium in loc. t Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 51. col. 626.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(16) The skins of the kids.In hot countries the coats of animals are far less thick and coarse than in cold climates, and some species of Oriental goats are famous for their soft, silky wool. But in those cases in which men have their bodies covered with hair, it is by no means of a delicate texture. In Son. 4:1 Solomons hair is compared to that of a flock of goats.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
16. Skins of the kids The hair of certain Oriental goats is said to resemble human hair, and Martial (Epig . 12:45) speaks of kid skin “covering the temples and crown of a bare scalp . ”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Son_2:13; Son_4:12-13; Son_7:11-12 . These scriptures prove the spirituality carried on through the whole of this transaction.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Ver. 16. And she put the skins of the kids. ] This by some is excused, as if it were only dolus bonus, to keep her husband from wrong doing; as, when the physician deceives his patient, that he may heal him. But howsoever what she did may be extenuated, it can hardly be justified, albeit God ordered it to his own purpose.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
skins: Travellers inform us, that the Eastern goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair, of the most delicate silky softness; indeed the animals generally in those hot countries are not covered with so thick a coat of hair as they are in more northerly regions; so that Isaac might easily be deceived, when his eyes were dim, and his feeling no less impaired than his sight. Gen 27:16
Reciprocal: Gen 25:25 – Esau Gen 27:23 – his hands
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 27:16. The skins of the kids of goats It is observed by Bochart, that, in the eastern countries, goats hair is very like the human.