Discovery BoxGenesis 27:3 
Context27:3 Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game 1 for me.
Genesis 27:30
Context27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left 2 his father’s 3 presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. 4
Genesis 27:5
Context27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. 5 When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back, 6
1 tn The Hebrew word is to be spelled either צַיִד (tsayid) following the marginal reading (Qere), or צֵידָה (tsedah) following the consonantal text (Kethib). Either way it is from the same root as the imperative צוּדָה (tsudah, “hunt down”).
2 tn The use of the infinitive absolute before the finite form of the verb makes the construction emphatic.
3 tn Heb “the presence of Isaac his father.” The repetition of the proper name (“Isaac”) was
4 tn Heb “and Esau his brother came from his hunt.”
5 tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by a conjunction with the subject, followed by the predicate) here introduces a new scene in the story.
6 tc The LXX adds here “to his father,” which may have been accidentally omitted in the MT.
