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.