Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom.)
Genesis 25:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger]. American Standard Version (1901) And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint: Common English Bible Once when Jacob was boiling stew, Esau came in from the field hungry Catholic Public Domain Version Then Jacob boiled a small meal. Esau, when he had arrived weary from the field, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field, |
Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom.)
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the company of prophets was sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets.”
One of them went out into the field to gather herbs; he found a wild vine and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.
The righteous have enough to satisfy their appetite, but the belly of the wicked is empty.
If one carries consecrated meat in the fold of one’s garment and with the fold touches bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy?” The priests answered, “No.”
Then one of the soldiers said, “Your father strictly charged the troops with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be anyone who eats food this day.’ And so the troops are faint.”
After they had struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon, the troops were very faint,