concept
Esau's mess of lentils
Esau's lentils
also: Чечевица Исава, the mess of pottage
The biblical episode (Genesis 25) in which Esau sells his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew; one of the vivid Old Testament stories Andrei Andreich taught his young daughter, alongside the destruction of Sodom and the sufferings of Joseph.
Reading notes
- The Requiem §31 Esau's mess of lentils
Genesis 25:29-34: the starving Esau sells his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew. One of the vivid, morally freighted Old Testament stories the self-taught Andrei Andreich passed on to his daughter as a child.