OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 25:28

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Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Verse 28. Loved Esau, as his first-born, who shewed him all attention, and whom he would naturally have appointed his heir, if the will of God had not afterwards been revealed to him. Rebecca, to whom this was already known, gave the preference in her love to Jacob. Bible.

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