Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
Psalm 106:24 - Tree of Life Version Then they scorned the pleasing land— they did not trust in His word. 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 lentil stew, and he ate and drank, then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
“Then I Myself said: ‘How gladly would I make you sons and give you a pleasant land— the most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ I thought you would call Me—Avi!— and would not turn from following Me.
On that day I lifted up My hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had sought out for them, flowing with milk and honey, the splendor of all lands.
They spread among Bnei-Yisrael a bad report about the land they had explored, saying, “The land through which we passed to explore devours its residents. All the people we saw there are men of great size!
Adonai said to Moses, “How long will these people treat Me contemptibly? How long will they neglect to trust in Me—in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?
All Bnei-Yisrael grumbled against Moses and Aaron and the whole community said, “If only we had died in Egypt! If only we had died in this wilderness!
“As for your children—whom you said would be like plunder—I will bring them in and they will experience the land that you spurned.
Only don’t rebel against Adonai, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They will be food for us. The protection over them is gone. Adonai is with us! Do not fear them.”
“But paying no attention, they went away, one to his own farm, another to his business.
“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Adonai your God.
When Adonai sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of Adonai your God and didn’t believe Him or listen to His voice.
Also see to it that there is no immoral or godless person—like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief that falls away from the living God.
Therefore, since we have a great Kohen Gadol who has passed through the heavens, Yeshua Ben-Elohim, let us hold firmly to our confessed allegiance.
For we also have had Good News proclaimed to us, just as they did. But the word they heard did not help them, because they were not unified with those who listened in faith.
So then it remains for some to enter into it; yet those who formerly had Good News proclaimed to them did not enter because of disobedience.
Now I wish to remind you—though you have come to know all things —that the Lord, once having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.