Why does isaac favor esau

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Study Toldot Genesis The Lord had revealed to Rebekah that Jacob was to receive the birthright, but Rebekah knew how much Isaac loved his oldest son and wanted to give these blessings to Esau. Because Esau had not always made right choices, Rebekah knew he was not worthy. He had rejected the teachings of his parents by marrying a daughter of the Canaanites. Rebekah knew by inspiration that Jacob should receive the birthright blessing.

Rebekah told Jacob that Isaac had sent Esau for venison and that he was going to bless Esau after the meal. I will make good-tasting meat for thy father just as he loves it. She then told Jacob he was to take the food to his father.

Then Isaac would give Jacob the blessing instead of Esau. My father will feel me and know that I have deceived him.

It shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing. Jacob hurried out, and when he returned with the two small goats, his mother prepared the good-tasting meat. She also took the skins of goats and made a hairy covering for his hands and neck.

Jacob nervously approached Isaac. Sit and eat of my venison that thou may bless me. Isaac was surprised that he had found the meat so quickly. Jacob served the food. Isaac blessed Jacob with the good things of the earth and prophesied that his brother would bow down to him and serve him. He was to inherit a promised land and have many descendants. Those descendants were to bear the holy priesthood and be a blessing to all nations of the earth.

Soon after Jacob had left the room, Esau returned. He had also prepared good-tasting meat for his father. Where is he who brought venison to me? Had Isaac and Rebekah studied the nature of Esau and spoken to that nature, who can say how different the history of the ages may have been recorded. The teacher sits at the head of the class and the students sit around him.

The teacher should not sit on a chair while his students sit on the ground. Rather, either everyone should sit on the ground or everyone should sit on chairs. Rather, he should repeat and review the matter, even if he must do so many times. Prepare for me a tasty dish like I love and bring it to me so that I may eat and so that my soul may bless you before I die.

And though godly parents must feel their affections most drawn over towards a godly child, yet they will not show partiality. Let their affections lead them to do what is just and equal to every child, or evils will arise. Barnes' Notes on the Bible The brothers prove to be different in disposition and habit. The rough fiery Esau takes to the field, and becomes skilled in all modes of catching game.

Jacob is of a homely, peaceful, orderly turn, dwelling in tents and gathering round him the means and appliances of a quiet social life. The children please their parents according as they supply what is lacking in themselves. Isaac, himself so sedate, loves the wild, wandering hunter, because he supplies him with pleasures which his own quiet habits do not reach.

Rebekah becomes attached to the gentle, industrious shepherd, who satisfies those social and spiritual tendencies in which she is more dependent than Isaac. Esau is destructive of game; Jacob is constructive of cattle.