Gen 25:29 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 29. Sod pottage ] yazed nazid , he boiled a boiling; and this we are informed, , was of adashim , what the Septuagint render φακον, and we, following them and the Vulgate lens , translate lentiles , a sort of pulse. Dr. Shaw casts some light on this passage, speaking of the inhabitants of Barbary. "Beans, lentiles, kidney beans, and garvancos ," says he, "are the chiefest of their pulse kind; beans, when boiled and stewed with oil and garlic, are the principal food of persons of all distinctions; lentiles are dressed in the same manner with beans, dissolving easily into a mass, and making a pottage of a chocolate colour . This we find was the red pottage which Esau, from thence called Edom , exchanged for his birthright ." Shaw's Travels, p. 140, 4to. edit.

‏ Genesis 25:29

Verse 29. Sod pottage] yazed nazid, he boiled a boiling; and this we are informed, Ge 25:34, was of adashim, what the Septuagint render φακον, and we, following them and the Vulgate lens, translate lentiles, a sort of pulse. Dr. Shaw casts some light on this passage, speaking of the inhabitants of Barbary. "Beans, lentiles, kidney beans, and garvancos," says he, "are the chiefest of their pulse kind; beans, when boiled and stewed with oil and garlic, are the principal food of persons of all distinctions; lentiles are dressed in the same manner with beans, dissolving easily into a mass, and making a pottage of a chocolate colour. This we find was the red pottage which Esau, from thence called Edom, exchanged for his birthright." Shaw's Travels, p. 140, 4to. edit.