Birthright: Sold by Esau

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  1. One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished. …
  2. So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
  3. “Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
  4. See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
  5. …not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
  6. So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”