FAVORITISM

Passages on this topic · 22

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

• Genesis 37:3

  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

• Genesis 37:4

  His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

• Genesis 43:34

  He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

• Deuteronomy 21:15

  If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

• Deuteronomy 21:16

  then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

• Deuteronomy 21:17

  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

• 1 Samuel 1:4

  When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

• 1 Samuel 1:5

  but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.