Génesis 25:29

29 Cierto día, mientras Jacob preparaba un guiso, Esaú regresó del desierto, agotado y hambriento.

Génesis 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.

Génesis 25:29 In-Context

27 Esaú vende su derecho del hijo mayor
Los muchachos fueron creciendo, y Esaú se convirtió en un hábil cazador. Él era un hombre de campo, pero Jacob tenía un temperamento tranquilo y prefería quedarse en casa.

28 Isaac amaba a Esaú porque le gustaba comer los animales que cazaba, pero Rebeca amaba a Jacob.

29 Cierto día, mientras Jacob preparaba un guiso, Esaú regresó del desierto, agotado y hambriento.

30 Esaú le dijo a Jacob:
—¡Me muero de hambre! ¡Dame un poco de ese guiso rojo! (Así es como Esaú obtuvo su otro nombre, Edom, que significa «rojo»).

31 —Muy bien —respondió Jacob—, pero dame a cambio tus derechos del hijo mayor.