Genesis 27:4
and prepare for me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat and that I may bless you before I die.’
Open English Bible (UK)
In The King James Version
In Context
3Take your quiver and your bow and go out into the fields and hunt venison for me
Cross References
Genesis 24:60They also blessed Rebekah, saying to her, ‘Our sister! May your children and their children become thousands and thousands, may your sons conquer the cities of their enemies!’
Genesis 27:14So he went and brought them to his mother, and his mother made savoury food such as his father loved.
Genesis 27:25Then Isaac said, ‘Bring the food to me, that I may eat some of my son’s venison and bless you.’ So he brought it to him, and he ate. Jacob also brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis 27:31He also had made savoury food and was bringing it to his father. So he said to him, ‘Father, rise and eat of your son’s venison, that you may bless me.’
Genesis 48:9And Joseph said to his father, ‘They are my sons, whom God has given me here.’ Israel said, ‘Bring them, I pray you, to me, and I will bless them.’
Genesis 49:28These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them and blessed them; each according to his blessing he blessed them.
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 →