Genesis 25:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”

Cross References

Genesis 25:30

Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he 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 look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.”

1 Chronicles 5:1

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. (He was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright;

1 Chronicles 5:2

though Judah became prominent among his brothers and a ruler came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph.)

Deuteronomy 21:16

then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he is not permitted to treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 21:17

He must acknowledge as firstborn the son of the one who is disliked, giving him a double portion of all that he has; since he is the first issue of his virility, the right of the firstborn is his.

Hebrews 12:16

See to it that no one becomes an immoral and godless person, as Esau was, who sold his birthright for a single meal.