Genesis 25:27
The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a quiet man, who spent his time in the tents.
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28Now Isaac loved Esau because he ate the animals that he had hunted, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Cross References
Genesis 6:9These were the events concerning Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 21:20God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
Genesis 27:40By your sword you will live, and you will serve your brother. 1 But when you rebel, you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
Genesis 31:39What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you. Instead, I bore the loss of it. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and Job was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned from evil.
Job 2:3Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. He still holds fast to his integrity, although you misled me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
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 →