Genesis 25:29
One day Jacob was cooking some stew when Esau got back from the countryside, tired out and starving hungry.
Free Bible Version
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 brought him tasty wild game to eat, while Rebekah loved Jacob.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:28But one of the soldiers told him, “Your father made the army take a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is anyone who eats anything today!’ That is why the men are exhausted.”
Proverbs 13:25The good eat until they're full; but the belly of the wicked is empty.
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 →