²⁹ Once when Jacob was cooking some stew,^(A) Esau came in from the open country,^(B) famished.

²⁸ Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the army under a strict oath, saying, ‘Cursed be anyone who eats food today!’ That is why the men are faint.”

³¹ That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Mikmash^(A) to Aijalon,^(B) they were exhausted.

⁴ Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan^(A) and crossed it. ⁵ He said to the men of Sukkoth,^(B) “Give my troops some bread; they are worn out,^(C) and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna,^(D) the kings of Midian.”