Genesis 25:29-34

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁹ Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger].

³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, I beg of you, let me have some of that red lentil stew to eat, for I am faint and famished! That is why his name was called Edom [red].

³¹ Jacob answered, Then sell me today your birthright (the rights of a firstborn).

³² Esau said, See here, I am at the point of death; what good can this birthright do me?

³³ Jacob said, Swear to me today [that you are selling it to me]; and he swore to [Jacob] and sold him his birthright.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau scorned his birthright as beneath his notice.