Genesis 25:29
Good News Translation
One day while Jacob was cooking some bean soup, Esau came in from hunting. He was hungry

New Revised Standard Version
Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

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

New American Bible
Once, when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

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2199. B.C.

1805. and he.

Judges 8:4,5 And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the three hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could not pursue after them that fled. . . .

1 Samuel 14:28,31 And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food this day. (And the people were faint.) . . .

Proverbs 13:25 The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.

Isaiah 40:30,31 You shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity. . . .

Context
Esau Sells His Birthright
29And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:30
Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

Genesis 25:34
And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

2 Kings 4:38
And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

2 Kings 4:39
And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field, and filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred them into the pot of pottage; for he knew not what it was.

Haggai 2:12
If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.

Genesis 25:28
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