Genesis 27:4
make from it a small meal for me, just as you know I like, and bring it, so that I may eat and my soul may bless you before I die.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
3Take your weapons, the quiver and the bow, and go out. And when you have taken something by hunting,
5And when Rebekah had heard this, and he had gone out into the field to fulfill his father’s order,
Cross References
Genesis 24:60wishing prosperity for their sister, by saying: “You are our sister. May you increase to thousands of thousands. And may your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Genesis 27:14He went out, and he brought, and he gave to his mother. She prepared the meats, just as she knew his father liked.
Genesis 27:25Then he said, “Bring me the foods from your hunting, my son, so that my soul may bless you.” And when he had eaten what was offered, he also brought forth wine for him. And after he finished it,
Genesis 27:31And he brought his father foods cooked from his hunting, saying, “Arise, my father, and eat from your son’s hunting, so that your soul may bless me.”
Genesis 48:9He responded, “They are my sons, whom God gave to me as a gift in this place.” “Bring them to me,” he said, “so that I may bless them.”
Genesis 49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. These things their father spoke to them, and he blessed each one with their proper blessings.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 27:2-6
Rebekah's Contrivance. ( b. c. 1760.) 1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. 2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: 3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; 4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul… Read the whole commentary →