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In Genesis, 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. [6]
Jacob offering a bowl of stew to Esau for his birthright, 18th-century painting by Zacarias Gonzalez Velazquez. Genesis 25:29–34 tells the account of Esau selling his birthright to Jacob. [18] This passage tells that Esau, returning famished from the fields, begged Jacob to give him some of the stew that Jacob had just made.
Francesco Hayez: Esau and Jacob reconcile (1844) Genesis 32–33 tells of Jacob's and Esau's eventual reconciliation. Jacob sends multiple waves of gifts to Esau as they approach each other, hoping that Esau will spare his life. Esau refuses the gifts, as he is now very wealthy and does not need them.
Although this phrase is often used to describe or allude to Esau's bargain, the phrase itself does not appear in the text of any English version of Genesis. Its first attested use, [2] already associated with Esau's bargain, is in the English summary of one of John Capgrave's sermons, c. 1452, "[Jacob] supplanted his broþir, bying his fader blessing for a mese of potage."
In the narrative of Genesis, it refers to the circumstances of Jacob's birth when he held on to the heel of his older twin brother Esau (Genesis 25:26). The name is etymologized (in a direct speech by the character Esau) in Genesis 27:36, adding the significance of Jacob having "supplanted" his elder brother by buying his birthright. [6]
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Isaac favored Esau for his game, but Rebekah favored Jacob. [9] Once when Jacob was cooking, Esau returned to the camp famished and demanded some of Jacob's red stew. [10] Jacob demanded that Esau first sell him his birthright, and Esau did so with an oath, spurning his birthright. [11] The first open portion ends here with the end of chapter ...
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