Genesis 25:30 meaning and explanation
He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
Genesis 25:30, Berean Standard Bible
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Esau has just come in from hunting, exhausted and hungry, and asks his twin brother Jacob for a share of the red stew cooking over the fire. The narrator notes that this is why Esau was also called Edom, a name related to the Hebrew word for red, adom, and connected to the land of Edom his descendants would later inhabit.
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