Genesis 25:29

And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he [is] weary;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

28and Isaac loveth Esau, for [his] hunting [is] in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.

30and Esau saith unto Jacob, 'Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I [am] weary;' therefore hath [one] called his name Edom [Red];

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:28And a man of the people answereth and saith, 'Thy father certainly adjured the people, saying, Cursed [is] the man who eateth food to-day; and the people are weary.'

Proverbs 13:25The righteous is eating to the satiety of his soul, And the belly of the wicked lacketh!

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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