John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 27:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, etc.] 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 f1433, observes, that the skins of goats are rough, and like the skin of a hairy man; and so Bochart f1434 remarks, that goats’ hair in the eastern countries is not much unlike human hair; (see <091913>1 Samuel 19:13,16).

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