Genesis 25:28
Isaac loved Esau because he brought him tasty wild game to eat, while Rebekah loved Jacob.
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In The King James Version
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Cross References
Genesis 27:4Make me that tasty food that I love and bring it to me to eat, so I can bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27:9Go to the flock and bring me two nice young goats. I'll cook them and make the tasty food your father loves.
Genesis 27:19“It's me Esau, your firstborn son,” Jacob told his father. “I did what you told me. So please sit up and eat some of my wild game meat so you can bless me.”
Genesis 27:31He had also made some tasty food, and took it to his father. Esau said to Isaac, “Sit up, my father, and eat some of my wild game so you can bless me.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:20-29
Birth of Esau and Jacob. ( b. c. 1837.) 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire… Read the whole commentary →