And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
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Gill's Exposition
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;…
- Isaac Blessing His Sons The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one years more his son Jacob remains under the…
Rebekah is here contriving to procure for Jacob the blessing which was designed for Esau; and here,
I. The end was good, for she was directed in this intention by the oracle of God, by which she had…
Cambridge Bible
the skins of the kids An extraordinary comment upon the description of Esau as "a hairy man" (Gen 25:25).