30He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom. )


In Context

27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents.

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

29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.

30 He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom. )

31 Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."

32 "Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?"

Genesis 25:30 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red [pottage;] for I [am] faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage . For I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with the red the red thing there, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:30and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:30Esau said to Jacob, |Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.| Therefore his name was called Edom.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:30and Esau saith unto Jacob, 'Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I am weary;' therefore hath one called his name Edom Red;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray you, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.