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)”

³² “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”

³³ But Jacob said, “Swear^(F) to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright^(G) to Jacob.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.^(H) He ate and drank, and then got up and left.

So Esau despised his birthright.

³⁶ Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob^[a]?^(A) This is the second time he has taken advantage of^(B) me: He took my birthright,^(C) and now he’s taken my blessing!”^(D) Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”

¹⁶ See that no one is sexually immoral,^(A) or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.^(B)

Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

9 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying,^(A) my conscience confirms^(B) it through the Holy Spirit—