Genesis 27:7

7 bringe me venyson and make me meate that I maye eate and blesse the before the LORde yer I dye.

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 But Rebecca hard whe Isaac spake to Esau his sonne. And as soone as Esau was gone to the felde to catche venyson and to brige it
6 she spake vnto Iacob hir sonne sainge? Behold I haue herde thi father talkinge with Esau thy brother and saynge:
7 bringe me venyson and make me meate that I maye eate and blesse the before the LORde yer I dye.
8 Now therfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I comaunde the:
9 gett the to the flocke and bringe me thece .ij. good kiddes and I will make meate of the for thi father soch as he loueth.
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