Genesis 23:20

23:20 So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site ¹  from the sons of Heth.

Genesis 25:10

25:10 This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. ²  There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

Genesis 25:29

25:29 Now Jacob cooked some stew, ³  and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

Genesis 27:3

27:3 Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game ⁴  for me.

[23:20]  ¹ tn Heb “possession of a grave.”

[25:10]  ² tn See the note on the phrase “sons of Heth” in Gen 23:3.

[25:29]  ³ sn Jacob cooked some stew. There are some significant words and wordplays in this story that help clarify the points of the story. The verb “cook” is זִיד (zid), which sounds like the word for “hunter” (צַיִד, tsayid). This is deliberate, for the hunter becomes the hunted in this story. The word זִיד means “to cook, to boil,” but by the sound play with צַיִד it comes to mean “set a trap by cooking.” The usage of the word shows that it can also have the connotation of acting presumptuously (as in boiling over). This too may be a comment on the scene. For further discussion of the rhetorical devices in the Jacob narratives, see J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative Art in Genesis (SSN).

[27:3]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew word is to be spelled either צַיִד (tsayid) following the marginal reading (Qere), or צֵידָה (tsedah) following the consonantal text (Kethib). Either way it is from the same root as the imperative צוּדָה (tsudah, “hunt down”).