Genesis 27:4
Make me savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it, that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee before I die.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad: and when thou hast taken some thing by hunting,
5And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfill his father's commandment,
Cross References
Genesis 24:60Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands, and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.
Genesis 27:14He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.
Genesis 27:25Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,
Genesis 27:31And brought in to his father meats made of what he had taken in hunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's venison; that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis 48:9He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said: Bring them to me that I may bless them.
Genesis 49:28The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come; may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.
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 →