so Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me some of this really red stuff, because I’m exhausted”—that is why he is called Edom.
Genesis 25:29 - Tree of Life Version Now Jacob cooked a stew. When Esau came in from the field, he was 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, |
so Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me some of this really red stuff, because I’m exhausted”—that is why he is called Edom.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
Afterward Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now there was famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
Then one of them went out into the field to gather herbs, found a wild vine and picked from it a lapful of wild gourds. Then he came back and sliced them into the stew pot, for they didn’t know what they were.
The righteous eats to his heart’s content, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
If a person carries consecrated meat in the corner of his garment, and with his corner he touches bread, stew, wine, oil or any food, will it become holy too?’” Then the kohanim answered and said, “No.”
Then, one of the soldiers told him, “Your father strictly put the people under oath saying: ‘Cursed be the man that eats food today.’ But the troops are exhausted.”
That day they struck down the Philistines from Michmas to Aijalon, though the people were so weary.