Genesis 25:28
Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Isaac amabat Esau, eo quod de venationibus illius vesceretur : et Rebecca diligebat Jacob.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἠγάπησεν δὲ Ἰσαὰκ τὸν Ἠσαύ, ὅτι ἡ θήρα αὐτοῦ βρῶσις αὐτῷ· Ῥεβέκκα δὲ ἠγάπα τὸν Ἰακώβ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב יִצְחָ֛ק אֶת עֵשָׂ֖ו כִּי צַ֣יִד בְּפִ֑יו וְרִבְקָ֖ה אֹהֶ֥בֶת אֶֽת יַעֲקֹֽב
Haydock's commentary
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. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.