Genesis 25:29
Jacob cooked some stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was weak from hunger.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
In Context
28Now Isaac loved Esau because he ate the animals that he had hunted, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:28Then one of the people, answered, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, by saying, 'Cursed be the man that eats food on this day,' even though the people are weak from hunger.”
Proverbs 13:25The righteous person eats until he satisfies his appetite, 1 but the stomach of the wicked is always hungry.
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 →