Genesis 25:30
said to him, “Give me this red stew, for I am very tired.” For this reason, his name was called Edom.
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In The King James Version
In Context
29Then Jacob boiled a small meal. Esau, when he had arrived weary from the field,
31Jacob said to him, “Sell me your right of the firstborn.”
Cross References
Genesis 32:4And he instructed them, saying: “You shall speak in this way to my lord Esau: ‘Your brother Jacob says these things: “I have sojourned with Laban, and I have been with him until the present day.
Genesis 36:8And Esau lived at mount Seir: he is Edom.
Genesis 36:19These are the sons of Esau, and these were their leaders: this is Edom.
Exodus 15:15Then the leaders of Edom were stirred up, and trembling took hold of the robust of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan were petrified.
Deuteronomy 23:7You shall not abhor anyone from Idumea, for he is your brother, nor the Egyptian, for you were a new arrival in his land.
Obadiah 1:1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent an envoy to the nations: “Arise, and let us together rise up in battle against him.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:30-34
Esau Sells His Birthright. ( b. c. 1805.) 29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave… Read the whole commentary →