Genesis 25:30
Good News Translation
and said to Jacob, "I'm starving; give me some of that red stuff." (That is why he was named Edom. )

New Revised Standard Version
Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom. )

Contemporary English Version
and said, "I'm starving to death! Here and now give me some of that red stew!" That's how Esau got the name "Edom."

New American Bible
He said to Jacob, “Let me gulp down some of that red stuff; I am famished.” That is why he was called Edom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

with that same red pottage.

Genesis 25:34 And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

,) was of lentiles, a sort of pulse.

Edom.

Genesis 36:1,9,43 And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom. . . .

Exodus 15:15 Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.

Numbers 20:14-21 In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour that hath come upon us: . . .

Deuteronomy 23:7 Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

2 Kings 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from being under Juda, and made themselves a king.

Context
Esau Sells His Birthright
29And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field, 30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.31And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:29
And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

Genesis 25:31
And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

Genesis 32:3
And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:

Genesis 36:1
And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.

Jeremiah 49:7
Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.

Genesis 25:29
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