²⁹ One day Jacob was ·boiling a pot of vegetable soup [or preparing stew]. Esau came in from hunting in the fields, ·weak from hunger [famished; starving]. ³⁰ So Esau said to Jacob, “Let me ·eat [gulp down] some of that red ·soup [or stuff], because I am ·weak with hunger [famished; starving].” (That is why people call him Edom [^Csounds like Hebrew for “red”].)

³¹ But Jacob said, “·First [^LAs the day; ^Can idiom meaning, “First of all…”] ·sell [or exchange with] me your ·rights as the firstborn son [birthright; ^Cthe firstborn had special inheritance rights and became the head of the family in the next generation].”