Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
- BSB One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
- NKJV Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary.
- NASB When Jacob had cooked a stew one day, Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted;
- NLT One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry.
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- Prov 13:25The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
- Isa 40:30–31Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
- 1 Sam 14:28Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’” The people were faint.
- Judg 8:4–5Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
- 1 Sam 14:31They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
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