Genesis 25:29

And Jacob had boiled pottage,—when Esau came in from the field, he, being famished.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

28And, Isaac, loved, Esau, because of the game he put in his mouth,—but, Rebekah, was a lover of Jacob!.

30So Esau said unto Jacob. Do let me devour some of the red—this red, for, famished, I am. For this cause, was his name called Edom.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:28Then responded one from among the people, and said—With an oath, did thy father charge the people, saying—Cursed, be the man that eateth food to-day! And so the people were faint.

Proverbs 13:25The righteous, eateth to satisfy his appetite, but, the belly of the lawless, 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 →

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