OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 27:4

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Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

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Verse 4. That, and so forth He does not mean, that the meat would induce him to give his blessing. Neither can we suppose, that he intended to pervert the order of God, in making the younger son subject to the elder, if he was informed by Rebecca, of that disposition of providence. Calmet.—But of this he seems to have been ignorant, verse 29. 35. Worthington.

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