Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Psalm 106:24 - Revised Standard Version Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then they spurned and despised the pleasant and desirable land [Canaan]; they believed not His word [neither trusting in, relying on, nor holding to it]; American Standard Version (1901) Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word, Common English Bible But then they rejected the land that was so desirable. They didn’t trust God’s promise. Catholic Public Domain Version these have seen the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. |
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
“ ‘I thought how I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beauteous of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.
So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?
And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
Only, do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”
But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;
And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him or obey his voice.
that no one be immoral or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.