Genesis 25:31
Jacob said to him, “Sell me your right of the firstborn.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
In Context
32He answered, “Lo, I am dying, what will the right of the firstborn provide for me?”
Cross References
Genesis 32:28But he said, “Your name will not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if you have been strong against God, how much more will you prevail against men?”
Hebrews 12:16lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:30-34
Esau Sells His Birthright. ( b. c. 1805.) 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. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave… Read the whole commentary →