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.

Cross References

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.

Proverbs 13:25

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

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.”

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,