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27 So the boys grew. And Esau was aa skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was ba mild man, cdwelling in tents.  
28 And Isaac loved Esau because he aate of his game, bbut Rebekah loved Jacob.  

Esau Sells His Birthright

29 Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary.
30 And Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” Therefore his name was called1 Edom.  
31 But Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright as of this day.”
32 And Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so awhat is this birthright to me?”  
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Adam Clarke
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Genesis 25:29

Sod pottage - yazed nazid , he boiled a boiling; and this we are informed, Genesis 25:34, was of adashim , what the Septuagint render , and we, following them and the Vulgate lens , translate lentils, a sort of pulse. Dr. Shaw casts some light on this passage, speaking of the inhabitants of Barbary. "Beans, lentils, kidney beans, and garvancos," says he, "are the chiefest of their pulse kind; beans, when boiled and stewed with oil and garlic, are the principal food of persons of all distinctions; lentils are dressed in the same manner with beans, dissolving easily into a mass, and making a pottage of a chocolate color. This we find was the red pottage which Esau, from thence called Edom, exchanged for his birthright." Shaw' s Travels, p. 140, 4th. edit.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 25:29:

Genesis 25:34
Hebrews 12:17

 

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