Genesis 25:28
Now Isaac loved Esau because he ate the animals that he had hunted, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
In Context
29Jacob cooked some stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was weak from hunger.
Cross References
Genesis 27:4Make delicious food for me, the sort that I love, and bring it to me so I can eat it and bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27:9Go to the flock, and bring me two good young goats; and I will make delicious food from them for your father, just like he loves.
Genesis 27:19Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you said to me. Now sit up and eat some of my game, that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:31He also made delicious food and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Father, get up and eat some of your son's game, so that you 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 →