Genesis 25:30 (WEB)
Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“So thou hast it written, He longed for the pottage, and his brother said to him, If thou wilt that I give it thee, give me thy birthright.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 30–34.
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Tertullian
“…wild beasts: so unlimitedly studious are you of catching fieldfares, so do you come from “the field” of your most lax discipline, so faint are you in spirit.” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. xxiii. 2, 3, 4, 31, and xxv. 27–34.
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