Genesis 25:30

30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[a] )

Genesis 25:30 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
30 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.
English Standard Version (ESV)
30 And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.)
New Living Translation (NLT)
30 Esau said to Jacob, “I’m starved! Give me some of that red stew!” (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means “red.”)
The Message Bible (MSG)
30 Esau said to Jacob, "Give me some of that red stew - I'm starved!" That's how he came to be called Edom (Red).
American Standard Version (ASV)
30 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.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
30 So Esau said to Jacob, "Let me have the whole pot of red stuff to eat--that red stuff--I'm exhausted." This is why he was called Edom.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
30 He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted." That is why he was [also] named Edom.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
30 He said to Jacob, "Quick! Let me have some of that red stew! I'm very hungry!" That's why he was also named Edom.

Genesis 25:30 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 25:30

And Esau said to Jacob, feed me, I pray thee, with that same
red [pottage]
Or, "with that same red F12, red"; not knowing what it was, or what it was made of, and therefore only calls it by its colour; and the word being doubled, may denote that it was very red; or he, being in haste and greedy of it through hunger, repeats it in a quick and short way: this pottage was made of lentiles, as we learn from ( Genesis 25:34 ) ; which sort of food was much in use with the Egyptians, Egypt abounding with lentiles; and particularly Alexandria was famous for them, from whence they were carried into other countries, as Austin


FOOTNOTES:

F13 relates. The lentiles of Pelusium, a city in Egypt, are made mention of by Virgil F14 and Martial F15, for which that place was famous; where, as Servius says F16, lentiles were first found, or where they grew the best; and, in the Misnah F17, an Egyptian lentil is spoken of, as neither large nor small, but middling. Pliny F18 speaks of two sorts of it in Egypt, and says he found it in some authors, that eating of these makes men even tempered, good humoured, and patient; and observes F19, that they delight in red earth, or where there is much ruddle, or red ochre, from whence they may receive a red tincture; and the pottage made of them is of such a colour. And Dr. Shaw F20 says, that lentiles dissolve easily into a mass, and make a pottage or soup of a chocolate colour, much used in the eastern countries: and, as Scheuchzer observes F21, coffee is of the bean kind, and not unlike a lentil, and makes a red decoction. The colour of it took with Esau, as well as it was sweet and savoury, as Athenaeus F23 reports; and especially, he being faint and hungry, desires his brother to give him some of it, and even to feed him with it: for I [am] faint;
so faint that he could not feed himself, or however wanted immediate sustenance, and could not wait till other food he had used to live upon was dressed: therefore was his name called Edom;
not from his red hair, but from this red pottage; for Edom signifies "red", and is the same with the names Pyrrhus and Rufus.
F12 (hzh Mdah Mdah-Nm) "de rufo, rufo isto", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; so Piscator, Schmidt.
F13 Comment. in Psal. xlvi. tom. 8. p. 174.
F14 Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. ver. 228.
F15 Martial. l. 13. epigr. 9.
F16 In Virgil. ut supra. (Georgic. l. 1. ver. 228)
F17 Misn. Celim. c. 17. sect. 8.
F18 Nat. Hist. l. 18. c. 12.
F19 lbid. c. 17.
F20 Travels, p. 140. Ed. 2.
F21 Physica Sacra, vol. 1. p. 78.
F23 Deipno Sophist. l. 4. c. 14, 15.

Genesis 25:30 In-Context

28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom. )
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”

Cross References 2

  • 1. ver 34
  • 2. Genesis 32:3; Genesis 36:1,8,8-9,19; Numbers 20:14; Deuteronomy 23:7; Psalms 137:7; Jeremiah 25:21; Jeremiah 40:11; Jeremiah 49:7

Footnotes 1

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