Genesis 25:30 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 25:30

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

KJV

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis (420)

(Verse 30) And Esau said to Jacob: Give me a taste of that red stew, for I am famished. That is why he was called Edom. Red or tawny is called Edom in the Hebrew language. Therefore, from the fact that he sold his birthright for red food, he obtained the name Edom, which means tawny.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(3.) The gratifying of the sensual appetite is that which ruins thousands of precious souls: surely, if Esau was hungry and faint, he might have got a meal's meat cheaper than at the expense of his birthright; but he was unaccountably fond of the colour of this pottage, and could not deny himself the satisfaction of a mess of it, whatever it cost him.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I am faint - It appears from the whole of this transaction, that Esau was so completely exhausted by fatigue that he must have perished had he not obtained some immediate refreshment. He had been either hunting or laboring in the field, and was now returning for the purpose of getting some food, but had been so exhausted that his strength utterly failed before he had time to make the necessary preparations.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
עֵשָׂ֜ו	'e.Sav	Esau	H6215 →
אֶֽל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יַעֲקֹ֗ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
הַלְעִיטֵ֤נִי	hal.'i.Te.ni	let swallow me	H3938 →
נָא֙	na'	please	H4994 →
מִן־	min-	some of	H4480 →
הָאָדֹ֤ם	ha.'a.Dom	the red [stew]	H122 →
הָאָדֹם֙	ha.'a.Dom	the red [stew]	H122 →
הַזֶּ֔ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
עָיֵ֖ף	'a.Yef	[am] exhausted	H5889 →
אָנֹ֑כִי	'a.No.khi	I	H595 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֥ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
קָרָֽא־	ka.ra'-	someone called	H7121 →
שְׁמ֖וֹ	she.Mo	name his	H8034 →
אֱדֽוֹם׃	'e.Dom	Edom	H123 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 23:7
Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
leads to
- Exodus 22:21
  You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 10:19
  So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:34
  You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Exodus 23:9
  Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 25:24–26
  When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.
Through
Genesis 36:1
This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
leads to
- Genesis 22:17
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Through
Exodus 15:15
Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
leads to
- Joshua 5:1
  Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until…
- Joshua 2:9
  and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting…

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Where the connections lead

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06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis