Genesis 25:29

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One day when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.

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  • Judg 8:4-5 : 4 Then Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet pursuing, came to the Jordan and crossed it. 5 He said to the men of Succoth, 'Please give loaves of bread to the people who are following me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.'
  • 1 Sam 14:28 : 28 Then one of the men said, 'Your father solemnly charged the people, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.'
  • 1 Sam 14:31 : 31 That day they struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, but the troops were very exhausted.
  • Prov 13:25 : 25 The righteous eat to their heart's content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.
  • Isa 40:30-31 : 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

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  • Gen 25:30-34
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    30Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me gulp down some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.' This is why he was also called Edom.

    31Jacob replied, 'First, sell me your birthright.'

    32Esau said, 'Look, I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?'

    33But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

    34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. Esau ate, drank, got up, and went on his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

  • Gen 25:25-28
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    25The first came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

    26After that, his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

    27The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed among the tents.

    28Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Gen 27:30-31
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    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

    31He too prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said, 'My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 27:4-7
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    4Prepare for me a tasty meal, the kind I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat and bless you before I die.

    5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

    6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.'

    7He said, 'Bring me some game and prepare a tasty meal for me, so that I may eat and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'

  • Gen 27:19
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    19Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 27:14-15
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    14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a tasty meal, just the way his father liked it.

    15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

  • Gen 27:25
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    25Then Isaac said, 'Bring it to me so I may eat my son’s game and bless you.' So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

  • Gen 27:17
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    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

    42When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.'

  • Gen 27:33
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    33Isaac trembled violently and said, 'Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came in, and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!'

  • Gen 27:36
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    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

  • Gen 27:22
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    22So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'