Genesis 25:31

A Conservative Version

And Jacob said, First sell me thy birthright.

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 his name was called Edom.

Genesis 25:32

And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die, and what profit shall the birthright do to me?

Deuteronomy 21:16

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the one regarded inferior, who is the first-born.

Deuteronomy 21:17

But he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the one regarded inferior, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.

1 Chronicles 5:1

And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born, but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and so the genealogy is not to be reckone

1 Chronicles 5:2

Now Judah prevailed above his brothers, and the ruler came from him, but the birthright was Joseph's.)

Genesis 27:36

And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Genesis 32:28

And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

Hebrews 12:16

lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.