Genesis 25:29-31

New Century Version

²⁹One day Jacob was boiling a pot of vegetable soup. Esau came in from hunting in the fields, weak from hunger. ³⁰So Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red soup, because I am weak with hunger.” (That is why people call him Edom.^[a])

³¹But Jacob said, “You must sell me your rights as the firstborn son.”^[b]

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Footnotes

25:30 Edom This name sounds like the Hebrew word for “red.”
25:31 rights . . . son Usually the firstborn son had a high rank in the family. The firstborn son usually became the new head of the family.