Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was preparing a stew, Esau came in from the fields, and he was very hungry;

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

In Context

28Isaac loved Esau, for he had a taste for venison; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

30so he said to Jacob, “Let me swallow some of that red stew, for I am very hungry.” (This is why he was called Edom.)

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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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