“And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.”
Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to Esau his son. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back. The listening Rebekah is the character who will act on what she has heard. The knowledge she carries from Genesis 25:23 — the older will serve the younger — is about to be enacted by her through means that are morally problematic. The application: having the right theological knowledge and using the wrong means to implement it is one of the recurring patterns of human sin. Rebekah knows the divine intention; she will pursue it through deception.
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