28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game,(A) loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.(B)

29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew,(C) Esau came in from the open country,(D) famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew!(E) I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[a])(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 25:30 Edom means red.

28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

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.

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