Genesis 25:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: so Esau despised his birthright.

Common English Bible

³⁴ So Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate, drank, got up, and left, showing just how little he thought of his birthright.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ And so, taking bread and the food of lentils, he ate, and he drank, and he went away, giving little weight to having sold the right of the firstborn.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ And so, taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

Genesis 25:34 Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

Genesis 25:33

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines.

Genesis 27:32

His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your firstborn son, Esau.”

Psalm 106:24

Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend enjoyment, for there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy themselves, for this will go with them in their toil through the days of life that God gives them under the sun.

Isaiah 22:13

but instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Zechariah 11:13

Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it into the treasury”—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the Lord.

Matthew 22:5

But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business,

Matthew 26:15

and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers! Be amazed and perish, for in your days I am doing a work, a work that you will never believe, even if someone tells you.’ ”

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”