Esau returns hungry from hunting and agrees to sell his birthright to his brother Jacob in exchange for food. Though the birthright provides future inheritance and leadership position, Esau considers it unimportant compared to his immediate hunger. Jacob takes advantage of Esau's weakened state to acquire the birthright through food.
Esau returns hungry from hunting and agrees to sell his birthright to his brother Jacob in exchange for food. Though the birthright provides future inheritance and leadership position, Esau considers it unimportant compared to his immediate hunger. Jacob takes advantage of Esau's weakened state to acquire the birthright through food.
Esau returns hungry from hunting and agrees to sell his birthright to his brother Jacob in exchange for food. Though the birthright provides future inheritance and leadership position, Esau considers it unimportant compared to his immediate hunger. Jacob takes advantage of Esau's weakened state to acquire the birthright through food.
• Gen 25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: • Gen 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. • Gen 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. • Gen 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? • Gen 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. • Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. • Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; • Heb 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. • Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. • Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. • Job 1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? • Job 1:9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? • Job 1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. • Job 1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. • Joh 4:31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. • Joh 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. • Joh 4:33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? • Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. • Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.