Genesis 25:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.”
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“One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he <FI>is<Fi> weary;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 25:29 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 8:4Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
- 1 Samuel 14:28Then 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 14:31That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
- Proverbs 13:25A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
- Isaiah 40:30Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
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