Genesis 25:29

Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

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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 his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

30Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:28Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’” So the people were faint.

Proverbs 13:25The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes 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 →

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