Genesis 25:32
“Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 22:9 : 9 In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.
- Job 21:15 : 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
- Job 22:17 : 17 They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Job 34:9 : 9 For he says,‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
- Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said,‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD of Heaven’s Armies?
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29 Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.
30 So Esau said to Jacob,“Feed me some of the red stuff– yes, this red stuff– because I’m starving!”(That is why he was also called Edom.)
31 But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”
- Gen 25:33-342 verses84%
33 But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.
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9 But Esau said,“I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”
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16 And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
17 For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.
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30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him,“My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.”
32 His father Isaac asked,“Who are you?”“I am your firstborn son,” he replied,“Esau!”
33 Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!”
35 But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
37 Isaac replied to Esau,“Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
38 Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.
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41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
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2 Isaac said,“Since I am so old, I could die at any time.
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15 So Esau said,“Let me leave some of my men with you.”“Why do that?” Jacob replied.“My lord has already been kind enough to me.”
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19 Jacob said to his father,“I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”
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24 Then he asked,“Are you really my son Esau?”“I am,” Jacob replied.
25 Isaac said,“Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.
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6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’
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10 Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”
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25 The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.
26 When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
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46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac,“I am deeply depressed because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”
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11 Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need.” When Jacob urged him, he took it.