He said to Jacob, ‘Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.’ That is why he was also named Edom.
Genesis 25:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger]. American Standard Version (1901) And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint: Common English Bible Once when Jacob was boiling stew, Esau came in from the field hungry Catholic Public Domain Version Then Jacob boiled a small meal. Esau, when he had arrived weary from the field, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field, |
He said to Jacob, ‘Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.’ That is why he was also named Edom.
Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his attendant, ‘Put on the large pot and make stew for the sons of the prophets.’
One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.
A righteous person eats until he is satisfied, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy? ’ The priests answered, ‘No.’
Then one of the troops said, ‘Your father made the troops solemnly swear, “The man who eats food today is cursed,” and the troops are exhausted.’
The Israelites struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash all the way to Aijalon. Since the Israelites were completely exhausted,