Genesis 27:9

9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

Genesis 27:9 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 27:9

Go now to the flock
To the flock he had the care of, and that immediately, for the case required haste: and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats;
two young kids that were fat, as Jonathan and Ben Melech interpret it; and, though two may seem to be too much to be dressed for Isaac only; it may be observed, that Rebekah intended only to take out some of the choicest and most tender and delicate parts of them, and which would best suit her purpose, and which she would make most like to venison; and the rest could be disposed of for the use of the family: and, if it should be questioned whether Rebekah had a right to do this without her husband's leave, the Jewish writers have an answer ready; that, in her dowry or matrimonial contract, Isaac had allowed her to take two kids of the goats every day F16: and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth;
such as would pass with him for venison: Jarchi says, that the taste of a kid is like the taste of a young roe or fawn; however, by seasoning, the natural taste might be altered so as not to be distinguished, as we find it was; and such as have the best skill in venison may be imposed upon and deceived by more ways than one, as well as Isaac was.


FOOTNOTES:

F16 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 65. fol. 57. 4. Jarchi in loc.

Genesis 27:9 In-Context

7 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.'
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
11 Ya`akov said to Rivka his mother, "Behold, Esav my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
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