Genesis 25:29

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Once, Jacob was preparing a meal when Esau, exhausted, came in from outdoors.

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Genesis 25:30

So Esau said to Jacob, “Let me have the whole pot of red stuff to eat—that red stuff—I’m exhausted.” This is why he was called Edom.

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau a meal of bread and lentils. He ate and drank, and then he got up and left. This is how Esau showed his contempt for his rights as firstborn.

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha went back to Gilgal, there was a famine in the country. ⌞One day,⌟ while the disciples of the prophets were meeting with him, he told his servant, “Put a large pot on the fire, and cook some stew for the disciples of the prophets.”

2 Kings 4:39

One of them went into the field to gather vegetables and found a wild vine. He filled his clothes with wild gourds. Then he cut them into the pot of stew without knowing what they were.

Proverbs 13:25

A righteous person eats to satisfy his appetite, but the bellies of wicked people are always empty.

Haggai 2:12

Suppose a person carries meat set aside for a holy purpose and he folds it up in his clothes. If his clothes touch bread, boiled food, wine, oil, or any kind of food, does that make the food holy?” The priests answered, “No.”

1 Samuel 14:28

Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father forced the troops to take a solemn oath: ‘Cursed is anyone who eats food today.’ ” Now, the army was exhausted.

1 Samuel 14:31

That day they struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, but the troops were thoroughly exhausted.