Genesis 25:29
And Jacob cooked pottage, and Esau came from the plain, fainting.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
In Context
28And Isaac loved Esau, because his venison was his food, but Rebecca loved Jacob.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:28And one of the people answered and said, Thy father solemnly adjured the people, saying, Cursed is the man who shall eat bread to-day. And the people were very faint,
Proverbs 13:25A just man eats and satisfies his soul: but the souls of the ungodly are in 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 →