Bible Strands
Genesis 25:29
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative places Jacob preparing a meal while Esau returns from agricultural labor, immediately following the account of parental favoritism in Genesis 25:28.
The words — וַ/יָּ֥זֶד (va/i.Ya.zed) denotes the action of cooking, and נָזִ֑יד (na.Zid) specifies the resulting cooked food or stew.
The thread — Genesis 25:30 continues the scene as Esau demands the stew due to his exhaustion. Physical depletion appears in Isaiah 40:30 regarding weary youths, while 1 Samuel 14:28 records a military oath that restricts food intake.
Why it lands — The text records a moment of physical need intersecting with domestic labor, requiring the reader to observe how immediate hunger shapes subsequent actions without prescribing a moral lesson.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
Cross-references
- Proverbs 13:25 A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
- Isaiah 40:30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
- 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.”
- Judges 8:4 Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
- 1 Samuel 14:31 That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.