Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Kejadian 27:31

[Daniel 2:7] ʿAnu tinyanut (עֲנוּ תִנְיָנוּת - They answered a second time): The Gaon [Saadia Gaon] said: that they did not add anything now beyond their first answer, except that in the first instance [Daniel 2:4] they were speaking directly to the king (l'nochach ha-melekh - לְנֹכַח הַמֶּלֶךְ), in the manner of [Jacob saying to Isaac] “Arise, now, sit” (kum na sh'vah - קוּם נָא שְׁבָה) [Genesis 27:19]. But now [they use] the third-person singular jussive form ["Let the king tell..."] which is not [so directly] addressed [to the person present], like [Esau saying of Isaac] “Let my father arise” (yakum avi - יָקֻם אָבִי) [Genesis 27:31]. And the reason [according to the Gaon] is that they were afraid to speak directly to him [now], and [so] they said [in effect]: "We have no [other] response to give back except what we [already] responded to the king." [The shift to a more indirect grammatical form reflects their fear and inability to offer a different answer.]

THE VOICE OF JACOB, because he speaks in an entreating strain —“Arise I pray thee.” Esau, however, spoke in a harsh strain (v. 31) “Let my father arise” (Midrash Tanchuma, Toldot 11).

WHO ART THOU? When Esau said to him, Let my father arise,²²⁷Verse 31 here. Isaac thought that it was Jacob, i.e., that because Jacob knew that he had eaten of Esau’s venison and blessed Esau, he too prepared savory meats so that he should bless him also. Therefore he asked, Who art thou?, in order to know the truth.²²⁸If Isaac did not think him to be Jacob, why should he ask, “Who art thou?” He himself had told Esau to make him savory food, and now he came and said, “Let my father arise.” However, since Ramban explains that Isaac thought him to be Jacob, the question is understandable.