Genesis 25:31 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

And Jacob said, Sell me first thy birthright.

Common English Bible

Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright today.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Jacob said to him, "Sell me your right of the firstborn."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

Genesis 25:31 Cross References

Genesis 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.

Genesis 25:32

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

Genesis 27:36

And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Genesis 32:28

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

1 Chronicles 5:1

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

1 Chronicles 5:2

For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

Deuteronomy 21:16

then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

Deuteronomy 21:17

but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.