29 When Jacob had cooked a (A)stew one day, Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted; 30 and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a mouthful of [a]that red stuff there, for I am exhausted.” Therefore he was called [b]Edom by name. 31 But Jacob said, “[c]First sell me your (B)birthright.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 25:30 Lit the red, this red
  2. Genesis 25:30 I.e., red
  3. Genesis 25:31 Lit Today

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 25:30 Edom means red.

29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

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