Genesis 25:30

Red pottage] lit. 'red stuff.' Esau in his haste did not define its nature. It was a mess of lentils (3.4). It is said that such pottage is, or was, distributed at the mosque at Hebron in memory of the event. Edom] i.e. 'red.' Probably here, as in many other instances in these ancient narratives of Genesis, we have the popular derivation of the names of well-known people and places. Edom is so called from the 'red' colour of its sandstone cliffs. Here Esau afterwards settled: see Genesis 36.