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Jacob and Rebekah
How Jacob and Rebekah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Rebekah was a parent of Jacob.
Rebekah loved Jacob, her younger son. She planned the disguise that won him Isaac's blessing, then sent him to her brother Laban to escape Esau.
but Rebekah loved Jacob
Genesis 25:28, King James Version
put them upon Jacob her younger son
Genesis 27:15, King James Version
flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran
Genesis 27:43, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 27:5-17
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 25:28
28And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 27:5-17
5And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
7Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
10And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
12My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
13And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
14And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
15And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
17And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Genesis 27:43
43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
King James Version