Genesis 25:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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  • Heb 12:16 : 16 And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
  • Gen 27:36 : 36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
  • Gen 36:6-7 : 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother 7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.
  • Mark 6:23 : 23 He swore to her,“Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”
  • Heb 6:16 : 16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute.
  • Gen 14:22 : 22 But Abram replied to the king of Sodom,“I raise my hand to the LORD, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 so that I may make you solemnly promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

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    29Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

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    31But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”

    32“Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

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    34Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

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    33Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”

    34When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!”

    35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”

    36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

    37Isaac replied to Esau,“Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

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    16And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

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    41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”

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    19Jacob said to his father,“I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”

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    9But Esau said,“I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

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    30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

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    25Isaac said,“Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.

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    26When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

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    15Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

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    10Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

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