So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!
He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me.”
And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.’
and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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