Genesis 25:28
Isaac loved Esau because he dyd eate of his venyso but Rebecca loued Iacob
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
In Context
29Iacob sod potage and Esau came from the feld and was faine
Cross References
Genesis 27:4and make me meate such as I loue and brynge it me and let me eat that my soull may blesse the before that I dye:
Genesis 27:9gett the to the flocke and bringe me thece.ij. good kiddes and I will make meate of the for thi father soch as he loueth.
Genesis 27:19And Iacob sayde vnto his father: I am Esau thy eldest sonne I haue done acordinge as thou baddest me vp and sytt and eate of my venyson that thi soule maye blesse me.
Genesis 27:31And had made also meate and brought it in vnto his father and sayde vnto him: Aryse my father and eate of thy sonnes venyson that thy soule maye blesse 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 →