Genesis 25:29

Then Jacob boiled a small meal. Esau, when he had arrived weary from the field,

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In The King James Version

And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

In Context

28Isaac was fond of Esau, because he was fed from his hunting; and Rebekah loved Jacob.

30said to him, “Give me this red stew, for I am very tired.” For this reason, his name was called Edom.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:28And in response, one of the people said, “Your father has bound the people by an oath, saying: ‘Cursed be the man who will eat any bread this day.’” (For the people were faint.)

Proverbs 13:25The just eats and fills his soul. But the belly of the impious is never satisfied.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:20-29

Birth of Esau and Jacob. ( b. c. 1837.) 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire… Read the whole commentary →

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