“And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.”
He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father: please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing. The language Esau uses — please sit up and eat, give me your blessing — is nearly identical to Jacob's in verse 19. The parallel shows how carefully the scene was constructed: the same words in the same sequence, but the recipient is different, and the timing is irreversible. The application: the timing of a covenant act matters. The same words a moment later produce a completely different result.
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