Genesis 25:29
And Ya'akov cooked stew: and Esav came from the sadeh, and he was famished.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
In Context
28And Yitzchak loved Esav, because he did eat of his wild game; but Rivkah loved Ya'akov.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:28Then answered an ish from HaAm, and said, Avicha strictly bound HaAm with an oath, saying, Arur (cursed) be the ish that eateth lechem this day. And HaAm were faint with famished exhaustion.
Proverbs 13:25The tzaddik (righteous) eateth to the satisfying of his nefesh (soul), 1 but the beten (stomach) of the resha'im shall 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 →