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Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
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The Practicality of the Deception
Commentators explain the practical reason for requesting two goat kids. This was not an excessive amount, but rather allowed Rebekah to select the choicest, most tender parts to convincingly imitate the taste and texture of venison. One scholar notes that the taste of a kid is similar to a fawn, and with proper seasoning, the deception would be difficult to detect.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years, he was contemporary with his father. For sixty-one more years, his…
19th Century
Anglican
Two good kids. —These would be about equal to one antelope or animal of the larger game. After Isaac had eaten of the flesh, so so…
Baptist
He does not appear to have raised any objection to what she proposed on moral grounds, but only on the ground of the difficulty of it and the likel…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Go now to the flock To the flock he had the care of, and that immediately, for the case required haste: and f…
Rebekah knew that the blessing was intended for Jacob, and expected he would have it. But she wronged Isaac by deceiving him; she wronged Jacob by …