He smelled the smell, &c.— It is thought to have been the custom to scent their richer garments with odoriferous flowers and other perfumes, with which they could easily be supplied from Arabia, famed for aromatic herbs: though perhaps the common flowers and odoriferous herbs of the country were most in use: and in these it is not improbable those garments (the sacerdotal, as we suppose) were kept. Isaac, no stranger to the smell of them, thence concluded that they belonged to his son Esau; and from this circumstance of their odour, he takes occasion to begin his benediction. By See, the smell, &c. some suppose the old patriarch to express, that the smell of his son's garments was as grateful and pleasing as that of a field, which the Lord hath blessed; that is, hath made fertile in all useful produce. See Hebrews 6:7. While others again suppose that he asserts, See, the smell is, &c. i.e.. behold, the odour of my son's apparel resembles that of a field blest with fertility by the Lord, a field full of flowers and odoriferous herbs. By the word full, I refer to מלא male, which is found in the Samaritan, &c. and is much defended by Houbigant.
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Genesis 27:27
27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: