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To: SeekAndFind
"Esau, you might remember, sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of red stew. "

Can anyone point me to this in The Bible?

There are a lot of unusual HISTORICAL items like this in The Bible that I never heard of before. That seems pretty specific.

3 posted on 10/08/2019 8:09:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

GENESIS 25:29-34 ESV

29 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. 30 And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.[a])

31 Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.”

32 Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”

33 Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.


4 posted on 10/08/2019 8:11:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Mr. K

Gen 25:30


6 posted on 10/08/2019 8:16:21 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Mr. K
...for a bowl of red stew. "

Can anyone point me to this in The Bible?

In Genesis 25:29, Esau returned to his brother, Jacob, being famished from the fields. He begged his twin brother to give him some "red pottage " (paralleling his nickname, Hebrew : אדום ‎ (adom, meaning "red"). Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright (the right to be recognized as firstborn) and Esau agreed.

23 posted on 10/08/2019 12:30:52 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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