Genesis 25:29
And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Coxit autem Jacob pulmentum : ad quem cum venisset Esau de agro lassus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἥψησεν δὲ Ἰακὼβ ἕψεμα· ἦλθεν δὲ Ἠσαὺ ἐκ τοῦ πεδίου ἐκλείπων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֥זֶד יַעֲקֹ֖ב נָזִ֑יד וַיָּבֹ֥א עֵשָׂ֛ו מִן הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וְה֥וּא עָיֵֽף
Haydock's commentary
Pottage, of Egyptian lentiles, the most excellent in the world. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Chapter 16
21. Therefore the heretic is not "the first to seize baptism," since he has received it from the Church. Nor, though he seceded, could baptism have been lost by him whom we assert no longer to retain the Church, and yet allow to retain baptism. Nor does any one "yield his birthright, and give it to a heretic," because he says that he took away with him what he could not give lawfully, but what would yet be according to law when given; or that he no longer has lawfully what yet is in accordance with law in his possession. …