Genesis 25:29-33

29 One day when Ya'akov had cooked some stew, 'Esav came in from the open country, exhausted,
30 and said to Ya'akov, "Please! Let me gulp down some of that red stuff - that red stuff! I'm exhausted!" (This is why he was called Edom [red].)
31 Ya'akov answered, "First sell me your rights as the firstborn."
32 "Look, I'm about to die!" said 'Esav. "What use to me are my rights as the firstborn?"
33 Ya'akov said, "First, swear to me!" So he swore to him, thus selling his birthright to Ya'akov.

Genesis 25:29-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 25

This chapter contains an account of Abraham's marriage with another woman, and of the children he had by her and of their posterity Ge 25:1-4; of Abraham's disposal of his substance; and his sons, Ge 25:5,6; of the years of his life, his death and burial, Ge 25:7-11; of the children of Ishmael, and of the years of his life, and of his death, Ge 25:12-18; and of the sons of Isaac the fruit of prayer, and of the oracle concerning them before they were born, and of their temper and disposition, conduct and behaviour, Ge 25:19-34.

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