Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
KJV
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison,.... Better than Jacob, not only because he was his firstborn, but because he brought him of the flesh of creatures, which he took in hunting, and being dressed, were savoury food to him: it is in the original, "because venison (or what he hunted) was in his mouth" (h), into which he put it, and was very grateful to his taste:
but Rebekah loved Jacob; more than Esau, being more at home with her, and of a milder disposition; and more especially being a good man, a partaker of the grace of God, and to whom she knew by the oracle the blessing and promise belonged.
(h) "quia venatio in ore ejus", Pagninus, Montanus.
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