Genesis 25:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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  • Ps 106:24 : 24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they did not believe his word.
  • Eccl 8:15 : 15 So I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
  • Zech 11:13 : 13 The LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter—that princely price they set on me.' So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
  • Matt 22:5 : 5 But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his business:
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 And said to them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they agreed with him for thirty pieces of silver.
  • Luke 14:18-20 : 18 And they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it: I ask you to have me excused. 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them: I ask you to have me excused. 20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
  • Acts 13:41 : 41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I am working a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, though a man declare it to you.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead do not rise? 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'
  • Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.
  • Heb 12:16-17 : 16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

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    27And the boys grew; and Esau was a skilled hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a simple man, dwelling in tents.

    28And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    29And Jacob boiled stew, and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

    30And Esau said to Jacob, Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.

    31And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright as of this day.

    32And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die; and what profit shall this birthright be to me?

    33And Jacob said, Swear to me as of this day; and he swore unto him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob.

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    16Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

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    35And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.

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    37And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants; and with grain and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now for you, my son?

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    41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.

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    30And it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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    25And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, so that my soul may bless you. And he brought it near to him, and he ate: and he brought him wine, and he drank.

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    17And she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

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    11Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.