John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 27:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And thou shall bring [it] to thy father, etc.] For venison; and as if he was Esau that brought it: that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death; to whom she knew by the divine oracle the blessing belonged, (<012523>Genesis 25:23), as well as by virtue of the sale of the birthright to him by his brother, (<012533>Genesis 25:33), and through Esau’s forfeiting of it by marrying with the Canaanites, (<012634>Genesis 26:34); in these her sentiments she was right, but wrong in the ways and means she took to get it for him.

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