Genesis 27:7

7 ‘Bring me some game and make me some delicious food so I can eat, and I will bless you in the LORD's presence before I die.'

Genesis 27:7 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 27:7

Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat
Fetch him venison out of the field, and dress it in a savoury manner, and bring it to him: that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death;
the phrase "before the Lord" is here added, which yet perhaps might be expressed by Isaac, though before omitted by the historian, and has a very considerable emphasis in it; for this solemn blessing was given not only in the presence of the Lord, and before him as a witness, but by calling upon him, and praying for direction in it, and then pronouncing it in his name and by his authority, he approving of it, so that it was ever after irrevocable.

Genesis 27:7 In-Context

5 Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the field to hunt game to bring back,
6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I just heard your father saying to your brother Esau,
7 ‘Bring me some game and make me some delicious food so I can eat, and I will bless you in the LORD's presence before I die.'
8 Now, my son, listen to me, to what I'm telling you to do.
9 Go to the flock and get me two healthy young goats so I can prepare them as the delicious food your father loves.
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