Genesis 25:29
And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
In Context
28Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:28And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food this day. (And the people were faint.)
Proverbs 13:25The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.
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 →