Genesis 25:29

And Jacob cooked pottage, and Esau came from the plain, fainting.

Updated 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 Rebekah loved Jacob.

30And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste of that red pottage, because I am fainting; therefore his name was called Edom.

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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 today. And the people were very faint,

Proverbs 13:25A just man eats and satisfies his soul: 1 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 →

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