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Genesis 25:29
And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;
Genesis 25:29 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 25:29 in other translations
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
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In context
26 And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.
27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
28 Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.
29 And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.
31 And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright.
32 And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me?
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