“Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;”
Now then, get your weapons — your quiver and bow — and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. The request to Esau is both practical and relational — the elder son's gift of wild game is the offering that prepares the scene for the formal blessing. Isaac is invoking the relational bond of his preference from Genesis 25:28: the father who loved the hunter for his food is now summoning the hunter for the last time. The application: the bonds of preference and affection that shaped the family relationship in the son's childhood are still operative in the father's old age.
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