Genesis 25:29

One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

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KJV

And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

ASV

And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint:

YLT

And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he is weary;

DBT

And Jacob had cooked a dish; and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

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And Jacob sod pottage,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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Sod pottage - יזד נזיד yazed nazid, he boiled a boiling; and this we are informed, Gen 25:34, was of עדשים adashim, what the Septuagint render φακος, and we, following them and the Vulgate lens, translate lentils, a sort of pulse.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

Jacob sod pottage--made of lentils or small beans, which are common in Egypt and Syria. It is probable that it was made of Egyptian beans, which Jacob had procured as a dainty; for Esau was a stranger to it.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Marriage is not forbidden to old age. By her he had six sons, in whom the promise made to Abraham concerning the great increase of his posterity was in part fulfilled, which, it is likely, he had an eye to this marriage. The strength he received by the promise still remained in him, to show how much the virtue of the promise exceeds the power of nature.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Isaiah 40:30–31
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
Proverbs 13:25
A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
Matthew 4:3
The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
1 Samuel 14:28
Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
1 Samuel 14:31
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
Judges 8:4–5
Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.

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The Creation of Light — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Proverbs 13:25
A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
leads to
- Psalms 34:10
  Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Proverbs 10:3
  The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- Hebrews 13:5
  Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
- 1 Timothy 4:8
  For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
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1 Samuel 14:31
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
leads to
- Joshua 10:12
  On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley…
- Joshua 19:42
  Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
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1 Samuel 14:28
Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
leads to
- 1 Samuel 14:43
  “Tell me what you have done,” Saul commanded him. So Jonathan told him, “I only tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. And now I must…
- 1 Samuel 14:24
  Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken…

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