Verse 19
19. A kid… cakes Compare the similar meal which Abraham prepared for his divine guests under the oak of Mamre. Genesis 18:5-8.
An ephah A measure of about four and one half pecks.
Flesh he put in a basket… broth in a pot “The Orientals do not, as we do, use broth in which meat has been boiled as a soup. But they do use stews, such as the pottage for which Esau sold his birthright, and such as the sons of the prophet were preparing when they put into it by mistake some poisonous herb. Thus, we apprehend, part of the kid was prepared, and this was the part brought out in the pot. While this was in preparation over the fire, the other part had been cut up into slips and roasted before the fire upon skewers, in which way meat is very rapidly dressed in the East into what is called kaboobs, which stand in the same place as chops and steaks with us, only that the pieces are very much smaller. This, we apprehend, was what was brought in the basket.” Kitto.
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