* goodly raiment. Heb. desirable.
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The Septuagint translates it "a goodly robe," which was a long
garment that great men used to wear, (Lu 20:46; 15:22.) The
priest afterwards in the law had "holy garments" to minister
in, (Ex 28:2-4.) Whether the first-born before the law had
such to minister in is not certain: for, had they been common
garments, why did not Esau himself or his wives keep them?
But being, in likelihood, holy robes, received from their
ancestors, the mother of the family kept them in sweet chests,
from moths and the like; whereupon it is said, (ver. 27,)
"Isaac smelled the smell of his garments."
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