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Genesis 25:29-31
Good News Translation
Genesis 25:29-31
Good News Translation
29 One day while Jacob was cooking some bean soup, Esau came in from hunting. He was hungry 30 and said to Jacob, “I'm starving; give me some of that red stuff.” (That is why he was named Edom.[a])
31 Jacob answered, “I will give it to you if you give me your rights as the first-born son.”
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- Genesis 25:30 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “red.”
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