What Is Pottage in the Bible?
Food
A stew with broth, like a lentil stew. Esau sold his birthright for a dish of pottage.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 25:29-34
What the Bible says
Genesis 25:29-34
29And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field, 30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom. 31And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright. 32He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me? 33Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright. 34And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “potaje” and “menestra”