Genesis 25:28
And Isaac loved Esau, because his venison was his food, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
In Context
29And Jacob cooked pottage, and Esau came from the plain, fainting.
Cross References
Genesis 27:4and make me meats, as I like them, and bring them to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee, before I die.
Genesis 27:9And go to the cattle and take for me thence two kids, tender and good, and I will make them meats for thy father, as he likes.
Genesis 27:19And Jacob said to his father, I, Esau thy firstborn, have done as thou toldest me; rise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis 27:31And he also had made meats and brought them to his father; and he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may 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 →