Genesis 25:29
Nowe Iaakob sod pottage, and Esau came from the fielde and was wearie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
In Context
28And Izhak loued Esau, for venison was his meate, but Rebekah loued Iaakob.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:28Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father made the people to sweare, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth sustenance this day: and the people were faint.
Proverbs 13:25The righteous eateth to the contentation of his minde: but the belly of the wicked 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 →