the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Genesis 27:14
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So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother. And his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
So Jacob went out and got two goats and brought them to his mother, and she cooked them in the special way Isaac enjoyed.
So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.
And he went, and took, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother made savory meat, such as his father loved.
He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
So Jacob went and got the two young goats, and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared a delicious dish of food [with a delightful aroma], the kind his father loved [to eat].
He yede, and brouyte, and yaf to his modir. Sche made redi metis, as sche knewe that his fadir wolde,
And he goeth, and taketh, and bringeth to his mother, and his mother maketh tasteful things, [such] as his father hath loved;
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
So Jacob brought the meat to his mother, and she cooked the tasty food that his father liked.
So he went, got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared them in the tasty way his father loved.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his father's taste.
And [Iacob] went, and fet them, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made pleasaunt meate, such as she knewe his father loued.
And he went, and fetched and brought [them] to his mother. And his mother prepared a savoury dish such as his father loved.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savoury food, such as his father loved.
And hee went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother, and his mother made sauoury meat, such as his father loued.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
So Jacob went and got them, and brought them to his mother. And his mother made good-tasting food, just what his father loved to eat.
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.
So he went, and fetched them , and brought them in to his mother, and his mother made dainty meats, such as his father loved.
So he went and set them, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made pleasant meat, such as his father loued.
So he went and picked them up, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made a stew, such as his father liked.
So he went to get them and brought them to her, and she cooked the kind of food that his father liked.
He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.
So he went and took them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.
So he went and took and brought them to his mother; and his mother made meats, as his father liked them.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.
He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
So he went and took them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.
And he went and took and came to his mother. And his mother made delicious things, such as his father loved.
So he wente his waye, and fetched it, and brought it vnto his mother. Then his mother made meate, acordinge as his father loued,
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother and she cooked a hearty meal, the kind his father loved so much.
So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made a delicious meal such as his father loved.
And he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
So Jacob went out and got the young goats for his mother. Rebekah took them and prepared a delicious meal, just the way Isaac liked it.
So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father loved.
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother made a savory dish such as his father loved.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
mother: Genesis 27:4, Genesis 27:7, Genesis 27:9, Genesis 27:17, Genesis 27:31, Genesis 25:28, Psalms 141:4, Proverbs 23:2, Proverbs 23:3, Luke 21:34
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Isaac loved Esau. He liked to eat the animals Esau killed. But Rebekah loved Jacob.
Isaac said, "I am old. Maybe I will die soon.
So take your bow and arrows and go hunting. Kill an animal for me to eat.
Prepare the food that I love. Bring it to me, and I will eat it. Then I will bless you before I die."
Your father said, ‘Kill an animal for me to eat. Prepare the food for me, and I will eat it. Then, with the Lord as witness, I will bless you before I die.'
Go out to our goats and bring me two young ones. I will prepare them the way your father loves them.
Then she got the food she had cooked and gave it to Jacob.
Esau prepared the food in the special way his father loved. He brought it to his father and said, "Father, I am your son. Get up and eat the meat from the animals that I killed for you. Then you can bless me."
Take away any desire to do evil. Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong. Help me stay away from their feasts.
"Be careful not to spend your time having parties and getting drunk or worrying about this life. If you do that, you won't be able to think straight, and the end might come when you are not ready.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he went and fetched and brought [them] to his mother,.... Being satisfied with what his mother had said, he went to the field where the flock was, and took out of it two young kids, and brought them to his mother; and thus far he did right to obey her commands:
and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved; by picking out proper pieces, and seasoning them well, it was as grateful to him as if it had really been venison, such as he loved.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- Isaac Blessing His Sons
The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one years more his son Jacob remains under the paternal roof. The remaining forty-four years are passed in the retirement of old age. The chapter before us narrates the last solemn acts of the middle period of his life.
Genesis 27:1-4
Isaac was old. - Joseph was in his thirtieth year when he stood before Pharaoh, and therefore thirty-nine when Jacob came down to Egypt at the age of one hundred and thirty. When Joseph was born, therefore, Jacob was ninety-one, and he had sojourned fourteen years in Padan-aram. Hence, Jacob’s flight to Laban took place when he was seventy-seven, and therefore in the one hundred and thirty-sixth year of Isaac. “His eyes were dim.” Weakness and even loss of sight is more frequent in Palestine than with us. “His older son.” Isaac had not yet come to the conclusion that Jacob was heir of the promise. The communication from the Lord to Rebekah concerning her yet unborn sons in the form in which it is handed down to us merely determines that the older shall serve the younger. This fact Isaac seems to have thought might not imply the transferrence of the birthright; and if he was aware of the transaction between Esau and Jacob, he may not have regarded it as valid. Hence, he makes arrangements for bestowing the paternal benediction on Esau, his older son, whom he also loves. “I am old.” At the age of one hundred and thirty-six, and with failing sight, he felt that life was uncertain. In the calmness of determination he directs Esau to prepare savory meat, such as he loved, that he may have his vigor renewed and his spirits revived for the solemn business of bestowing that blessing, which he held to be fraught with more than ordinary benefits.
Genesis 27:5-13
Rebekah forms a plan for diverting the blessing from Esau to Jacob. She was within hearing when the infirm Isaac gave his orders, and communicates the news to Jacob. Rebekah has no scruples about primogeniture. Her feelings prompt her to take measures, without waiting to consider whether they are justifiable or not, for securing to Jacob that blessing which she has settled in her own mind to be destined for him. She thinks it necessary to interfere that this end may not fail of being accomplished. Jacob views the matter more coolly, and starts a difficulty. He may be found out to be a deceiver, and bring his father’s curse upon him. Rebekah, anticipating no such issue; undertakes to bear the curse that she conceived would never come. Only let him obey.
Verse 14-29
The plan is successful. Jacob now, without further objection, obeys his mother. She clothes him in Esau’s raiment, and puts the skins of the kids on his hands and his neck. The camel-goat affords a hair which bears a great resemblance to that of natural growth, and is used as a substitute for it. Now begins the strange interview between the father and the son. “Who art thou, my son?” The voice of Jacob was somewhat constrained. He goes, however, deliberately through the process of deceiving his father. “Arise, now, sit and eat.” Isaac was reclining on his couch, in the feebleness of advancing years. Sitting was the posture convenient for eating. “The Lord thy God prospered me.” This is the bold reply to Isaac’s expression of surprise at the haste with which the dainty fare had been prepared. The bewildered father now puts Jacob to a severer test. He feels him, but discerns him not. The ear notes a difference, but the hand feels the hairy skin resembling Esau’s; the eyes give no testimony. After this the result is summarily stated in a single sentence, though the particulars are yet to be given. “Art thou my very son Esau?” A lurking doubt puts the definite question, and receives a decisive answer. Isaac then calls for the repast and partakes.
Genesis 27:26-29
He gives the kiss of paternal affection, and pronounces the benediction. It contains, first, a fertile soil. “Of the dew of heaven.” An abundant measure of this was especially precious in a country where the rain is confined to two seasons of the year. “Of the fatness of the earth;” a proportion of this to match and render available the dew of heaven. “Corn and wine,” the substantial products, implying all the rest. Second, a numerous and powerful offspring. “Let peoples serve thee” - pre-eminence among the nations. “Be lord of thy brethren” - pre-eminence among his kindred. Isaac does not seem to have grasped the full meaning of the prediction, “The older shall serve the younger.” Third, Prosperity, temporal and spiritual. He that curseth thee be cursed, and he that blesseth thee be blessed. This is the only part of the blessing that directly comprises spiritual things; and even this of a special form. It is to be recollected that it was Isaac’s intention to bless Esau, and he may have felt that Esau, after all, was not to be the progenitor of the holy seed. Hence, the form of expression is vague enough to apply to temporal things, and yet sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the infliction of the ban of sin, and the diffusion of the blessing of salvation by means of the holy seed.
Genesis 27:30-41
Esau’s blessing. Esau comes in, but it is too late. “Who then?” The whole illusion is dispelled from the mind of Isaac. “Yea, blessed he shall be.” Jacob had no doubt perpetrated a fraud, at the instigation of his mother; and if Esau had been worthy in other respects, and above all if the blessing had been designed for him, its bestowment on another would have been either prevented or regarded as null and void. But Isaac now felt that, whatever was the misconduct of Jacob in interfering, and especially in employing unworthy means to accomplish his end, he himself was culpable in allowing carnal considerations to draw his preference to Esau, who was otherwise unworthy. He knew too that the paternal benediction flowed not from the bias of the parent, but from the Spirit of God guiding his will, and therefore when so pronounced could not be revoked. Hence, he was now convinced that it was the design of Providence that the spiritual blessing should fall on the line of Jacob. The grief of Esau is distressing to witness, especially as he had been comparatively blameless in this particular instance. But still it is to be remembered that his heart had not been open to the paramount importance of spiritual things. Isaac now perceives that Jacob has gained the blessing by deceit. Esau marks the propriety of his name, the wrestler who trips up the heel, and pleads pathetically for at least some blessing. His father enumerates what he has done for Jacob, and asks what more he can do for Esau; who then exclaims, “Hast thou but one blessing?”
Genesis 27:39-41
At length, in reply to the weeping suppliant, he bestows upon him a characteristic blessing. “Away from the fatness.” The preposition (מי mı̂y) is the same as in the blessing of Jacob. But there, after a verb of giving, it had a partitive sense; here, after a noun of place, it denotes distance or separation; for example, Proverbs 20:3 The pastoral life has been distasteful to Esau, and so it shall be with his race. The land of Edom was accordingly a comparative wilderness (Malachi 1:3). “On thy sword.” By preying upon others. “And thy brother shalt thou serve.” Edom was long independent; but at length Saul was victorious over them 1 Samuel 14:47, and David conquered them 2 Samuel 8:14. Then followed a long struggle, until John Hyrcanus, 129 b.c., compelled them to be circumcised and incorporated into Judaism. “Break his yoke.” The history of Edom was a perpetual struggle against the supremacy of Israel. Conquered by Saul, subdued by David, repressed by Solomon, restrained after a revolt by Amaziah, they recovered their independence in the time of Ahab. They were incorporated into the Jewish state, and furnished it with the dynasty of princes beginning with Antipater. Esau was now exasperated against his brother, and could only compose his mind by resolving to slay him during the days of mourning after his father’s death.
Genesis 27:42-46
Rebekah hearing this, advises Jacob to flee to Laban her brother, and await the abatement of his brother’s anger. “That which thou hast done to him.” Rebekah seems not to have been aware that she herself was the cause of much of the evil and of the misery that flowed from it. All the parties to this transaction are pursued by a retributive chastisement. Rebekah, especially, parts with her favorite son to meet him only after an absence of twenty years, if ever in this life. She is moreover grievously vexed with the connection which Esau formed with the daughters of Heth. She dreads a similar matrimonial alliance on the part of Jacob.
