Genesis 25:28

28 Now Yitzchak loved Esav, because he ate his venison. Rivka loved Ya`akov.

Genesis 25:28 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 25:28

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his] venison,
&c.] Better than Jacob, not only because he was his firstborn, but because he brought him of the flesh of creatures, which he took in hunting, and being dressed, were savoury food to him: it is in the original, "because venison (or what he hunted) [was] in his mouth" ^F8, into which he put it, and was very grateful to his taste: but Rebekah loved Jacob;
more than Esau, being more at home with her, and of a milder disposition; and more especially being a good man, a partaker of the grace of God, and to whom she knew by the oracle the blessing and promise belonged.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (wypb dyu yk) "quia venatio in ore ejus", Pagninus, Montanus.

Genesis 25:28 In-Context

26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esav's heel. He was named Ya`akov. Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.

27 The boys grew. Esav was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Ya`akov was a quiet man, living in tents.

28 Now Yitzchak loved Esav, because he ate his venison. Rivka loved Ya`akov.

29 Ya`akov boiled stew. Esav came in from the field, and he was famished.

30 Esav said to Ya`akov, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.