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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 27:9

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512, Sistine Chapel

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Genesis 27:9 (WEB)

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

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  • “She says to her younger son, “Go to the flock and fetch me two kids,” prefiguring the Saviour’s advent in the flesh to work a mighty deliverance for them who were held liable to the punishment of sin; for indeed in all the Scriptures kids are taken for emblems of sinners.” — editor's note: Gen. xxvii. 9.

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