Genesis 25:28

And Izhak loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting, and Rivekah loved Jakob.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

In Context

27And the youths grew; and Esau was a man of idleness, a man going out into the field; and Jakob was a man of peace, a minister of the house of instruction.

29And Jakob dressed pottage, and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

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Cross References

Genesis 27:4And make me food I such as I like, and bring it to me, and I will eat, and my soul shall bless thee before I die.

Genesis 27:9Go now to the flock, and take thee from thence two good goat-kids, and make them into food for thy father such as he loves,

Genesis 27:19And Jakob said to his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou hast told me. Arise now, turn thyself, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Genesis 27:31And he had also made food, and he brought it to his father, and said to his father, Arise, my father, and eat of thy 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 →

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