Genesis 25:30

Feed me … with i.e. "let me, I pray thee, swallow a little of."

that same redpottage] Heb. the redpottage, this redpottage. Esau's words repeat the adjective "red": either this was the name by which the pottage was known, or else Esau in his faintness and weariness is represented as simply pointing and gasping out "that red, red mess 1 [22]."

[22] "The phrase -mess of pottage" does not occur in the A.V. of 1611, but is used proverbially of the means whereby Esau sold his birthright (Genesis 25.). The actual phrase was used in the heading to this chapter of Genesis in the Bibles of 1537 and 1539, and in the Geneva Bible of 1560. Coverdale, in his Bible of 1535, used the phrase in other passages, viz. in 1 Chronicles 16:3 and Proverbs 20:7, but not in Genesis 25. See A New English Dictionary(Oxford University Press)," Spectator, Nov. 29, 1913.

therefore was his name called A separate tradition accounting for the origin of the name "Edom": see note on Genesis 25:25.

Edom That is, Red.