Genesis 25:29
And Jacob boiled pottage. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
In Context
28Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:28Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth food this day. And the people were faint.
Proverbs 13:25The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; But the belly of the wicked shall want.
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 →