Genesis 25:28

World English Bible (2000)

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 27:19 : 19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
  • Gen 27:4 : 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
  • Gen 27:6-7 : 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'
  • Gen 27:9 : 9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
  • Gen 27:25 : 25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
  • Gen 27:31 : 31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 27:4-7
    4 verses
    83%

    4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."

    5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

    6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

    7 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

  • Gen 25:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

    30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

  • Gen 25:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

    27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

  • Gen 27:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

    15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

  • Gen 27:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

    31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."

  • Gen 27:19
    77%

    19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

  • Gen 27:41-42
    2 verses
    76%

    41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

    42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

  • Gen 27:25
    75%

    25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

  • Rom 9:13
    74%

    13 Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

  • Gen 27:33
    74%

    33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

  • Gen 28:8
    74%

    8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.

  • Gen 25:34
    74%

    34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

  • Gen 27:17
    73%

    17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

  • Gen 27:22
    73%

    22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

  • Mal 1:2
    72%

    2 "I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;

  • Gen 26:35
    72%

    35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

  • Gen 28:5
    72%

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