Genesis 25:34

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Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. Esau ate, drank, got up, and went on his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

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  • Ps 106:24 : 24 But they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
  • Eccl 8:15 : 15 So I praised enjoyment, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat, drink, and be glad. This will accompany them in their toil through the days of life that God has given them under the sun.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 But behold, there is joy and gladness—killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine—saying, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!'
  • Zech 11:13 : 13 Then the LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter—the splendid price at which they valued me!' So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.
  • Matt 22:5 : 5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him over to you?" So they counted out thirty pieces of silver for him.
  • Luke 14:18-20 : 18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’ 19 Another said, ‘I have bought five pairs of oxen, and I am on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’ 20 Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I cannot come.’
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 'Look, you scoffers! Be amazed and perish, for I am doing a work in your days, a work you will never believe, even if someone tells you about it.'
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus merely from a human point of view, what benefit is that to me? If the dead are not raised, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'
  • Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ, as I have often told you, and now I tell you again with tears. 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
  • Heb 12:16-17 : 16 Make sure that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He found no opportunity for repentance, even though he sought it with tears.

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  • Gen 25:27-33
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    27The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed among the tents.

    28Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    29One day when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.

    30Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me gulp down some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.' This is why he was also called Edom.

    31Jacob replied, 'First, sell me your birthright.'

    32Esau said, 'Look, I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?'

    33But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

  • Heb 12:16
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    16Make sure that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

  • Gen 27:34-37
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    34When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, 'Bless me—me too, my father!'.

    35But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'

    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

    37Isaac answered Esau, 'Behold, I have made him lord over you and have given him all his brothers as servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?'

  • Gen 27:41
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    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

  • Gen 27:30-31
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    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

    31He too prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said, 'My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 27:19
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    19Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 27:25
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    25Then Isaac said, 'Bring it to me so I may eat my son’s game and bless you.' So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

  • Gen 27:17
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    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.

  • Gen 33:9
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    9But Esau said, 'I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.'

  • Gen 27:14-15
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    14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a tasty meal, just the way his father liked it.

    15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

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    5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

  • Gen 33:11
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    11Please accept the blessing that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me, and I have all I need.' And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.