Genesis 27:7

7 'Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat [it] and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

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 Now Rebekah [was] listening as Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and [when] Esau went to the field to hunt wild game to bring [back],

6 Rebekah said to Jacob her son, "Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother saying,

7 'Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat [it] and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

8 So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you.

9 Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them [as] tasty food for your father, just as he likes.