Genesis 25:29 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁹ Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, 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

Genesis 25:30

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

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

2 Kings 4:38

And Elisha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.”

2 Kings 4:39

One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of pottage, not knowing what they were.

Proverbs 13:25

The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

Haggai 2:12

‘If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touches with his skirt bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy?’ ” The priests answered, “No.”

1 Samuel 14:28

Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food this day.’ ” And the people were faint.

1 Samuel 14:31

They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;