Genesis 27:6

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I just now heard your father say to your brother Esau,

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And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

In Context

5Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went into the fields to hunt venison,

7‘Bring me venison and prepare for me savory food that I may eat it and bless you before I die.’

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Cross References

Genesis 25:28Isaac loved Esau, for he had a taste for venison; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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 →

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