Chuàngshìjì 25:29

29 Yǒu yī tiān , Yǎgè aó tāng , Yǐsǎo cóng tiānyĕ huí lái leì hūn le .

Chuàngshìjì 25:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 25:29

And Jacob sod pottage
Or boiled broth; this he did at a certain time, for this was not his usual employment; the Targum of Jonathan says, it was on the day in which Abraham died; and whereas this pottage was made of lentiles, as appears from ( Genesis 25:34 ) ; this the Jewish writers ^F9 say was the food of mourners; and so this circumstance furnishes out a reason for Jacob's boiling pottage of lentiles at this time: and hence also they ^F11 gather, that Jacob and Esau were now fifteen years of age; for Abraham was an hundred years old when Isaac was born, and Isaac was sixty at the birth of his sons; and Abraham lived to be one hundred and seventy five, and therefore Esau and Jacob must be fifteen years old when he died: and Esau came from the field, and be [was] faint:
for want of food, and weary with hunting, and perhaps more so, having toiled and got nothing.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Pirke Eliezer, c. 35.
F11 Seder Olam Rabba, p. 3. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 5. 1.

Chuàngshìjì 25:29 In-Context

27 Liǎng gè háizi jiànjiàn zhǎngdà , Yǐsǎo shàn yú dǎ liè , cháng zaì tiānyĕ . Yǎgè wéirén ānjìng , cháng zhù zaì zhàngpéng lǐ .

28 Yǐsā aì Yǐsǎo , yīnwei cháng chī tāde yĕwèi . Lìbǎijiā què aì Yǎgè .

29 Yǒu yī tiān , Yǎgè aó tāng , Yǐsǎo cóng tiānyĕ huí lái leì hūn le .

30 Yǐsǎo duì Yǎgè shuō , wǒ leì hūn le , qiú nǐ bǎ zhè hóng tāng gĕi wǒ hē . yīncǐ Yǐsǎo yòu jiào Yǐdōng ( Yǐdōng jiù shì hóng de yìsi ) .

31 Yǎgè shuō , nǐ jīnrì bǎ zhǎngzǐ de míngfèn maì gĕi wǒ ba .