Genesis 25:29

And Jacob at one time boiled pottage, and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

Leeser Tanakh

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 he did eat of his venison; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

30And Esau said to Jacob, Let me swallow down, I pray thee, some of that yonder red pottage, for I am faint; therefore was his name called Edom.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:28Then commenced one of the people, and said, Thy father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that will eat food this day; though the people were faint.

Proverbs 13:25The righteous eateth to satisfy his desire [to eat]; but the belly of the wicked always suffereth 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 →

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