Genesis 25:31 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³¹ Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Jacob answered, Then sell me today your birthright (the rights of a firstborn).

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me first thy birthright.

Common English Bible

³¹ Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright today.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Jacob said to him, "Sell me your right of the firstborn."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

Genesis 25:31 Cross References

Genesis 25:30

And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!” (Therefore his name was called Edom. )

Genesis 25:32

Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”

Genesis 27:36

Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Genesis 32:28

Then he said, “Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

1 Chronicles 5:1

The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but because he polluted his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright;

1 Chronicles 5:2

though Judah became strong among his brothers and a prince was from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

Deuteronomy 21:16

then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,

Deuteronomy 21:17

but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

Hebrews 12:16

that no one be immoral or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.