Genesis 25:28

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Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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  • Gen 27:19 : 19 Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'
  • Gen 27:4 : 4 Prepare for me a tasty meal, the kind I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat and bless you before I die.
  • Gen 27:6-7 : 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.' 7 He said, 'Bring me some game and prepare a tasty meal for me, so that I may eat and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'
  • Gen 27:9 : 9 Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare a tasty meal for your father, just the way he loves it.
  • Gen 27:25 : 25 Then Isaac said, 'Bring it to me so I may eat my son’s game and bless you.' So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
  • Gen 27:31 : 31 He too prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said, 'My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

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  • Gen 27:4-7
    4 verses
    83%

    4Prepare for me a tasty meal, the kind I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat and bless you before I die.

    5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

    6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.'

    7He said, 'Bring me some game and prepare a tasty meal for me, so that I may eat and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'

  • Gen 25:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29One day when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.

    30Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me gulp down some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.' This is why he was also called Edom.

  • Gen 25:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26After that, his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

    27The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed among the tents.

  • Gen 27:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a tasty meal, just the way his father liked it.

    15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

  • Gen 27:30-31
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    78%

    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

    31He too prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said, 'My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 27:19
    77%

    19Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 27:41-42
    2 verses
    76%

    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

    42When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.'

  • Gen 27:25
    75%

    25Then Isaac said, 'Bring it to me so I may eat my son’s game and bless you.' So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

  • Rom 9:13
    74%

    13As it is written: 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.'

  • Gen 27:33
    74%

    33Isaac trembled violently and said, 'Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came in, and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!'

  • Gen 28:8
    74%

    8Esau realized that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing to Isaac his father.

  • Gen 25:34
    74%

    34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. Esau ate, drank, got up, and went on his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

  • Gen 27:17
    73%

    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.

  • Gen 27:22
    73%

    22So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'

  • Mal 1:2
    72%

    2I have loved you, says the LORD. But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother? declares the LORD. Yet I have loved Jacob,

  • Gen 26:35
    72%

    35They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

  • Gen 28:5
    72%

    5Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.