Genesis 25:29

One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

In Context

28Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

30He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:28Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”

Proverbs 13:25A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach 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 →

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