Genesis 25:29

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

One day, Jacob was cooking some stew, when Esau came home hungry

Cross References

Genesis 25:30

and said, “I'm starving to death! Give me some of that red stew at once!” That's how Esau got the name “Edom”.

Genesis 25:34

Jacob then gave Esau some bread and some of the bean stew, and when Esau had finished eating and drinking, he just got up and left, showing how little he thought of his rights as the firstborn.

2 Kings 4:38

Later, Elisha went back to Gilgal, where there was almost nothing to eat, because the crops had failed. One day while the prophets who lived there were meeting with Elisha, he said to his servant, “Prepare a big pot of stew for these prophets.”

2 Kings 4:39

One of them went out into the woods to gather some herbs. He found a wild vine and picked as much of its fruit as he could carry, but he didn't know that the fruit was very sour. When he got back, he cut up the fruit and put it in the stew.

Proverbs 13:25

If you live right, you will have plenty to eat; if you don't live right, you will go away empty.

Haggai 2:12

Suppose meat ready to be sacrificed to God is being carried in the folds of someone's clothing, and the clothing rubs against some bread or stew or wine or olive oil or any other food. Would those foods that were touched then become acceptable for sacrifice? “Of course not,” the priests answered.

1 Samuel 14:28

Then a soldier told him, “Your father swore that anyone who ate food today would be put under a curse, and we agreed not to eat. That's why we're so weak.”

1 Samuel 14:31

By evening the Israelite army was exhausted from killing Philistines all the way from Michmash to Aijalon.