Genesis 25:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint:

Common English Bible

²⁹ Once when Jacob was boiling stew, Esau came in from the field hungry

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Then Jacob boiled a small meal. Esau, when he had arrived weary from the field,

Genesis 25:29 Cross References

Proverbs 13:25

The righteous have enough to satisfy their appetite, but the belly of the wicked is empty.

1 Samuel 14:28

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.”

1 Samuel 14:31

After they had struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon, the troops were very faint,

Genesis 25:30

Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom.)

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

2 Kings 4:38

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.”

2 Kings 4:39

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.

Haggai 2:12

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.”