²⁹ Once when Jacob was cooking some stew,^(A) Esau came in from the open country,^(B) famished. ³⁰ He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew!^(C) I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.^[a])^(D)

³¹ Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.^(E)”