Genesis 25:29-34, New Living Translation
29 One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home exhausted and hungry from a hunt.
30 Esau said to Jacob, "I'm starved! Give me some of that red stew you've made." (This was how Esau got his other name, Edom—"Red.")
31 Jacob replied, "All right, but trade me your birthright for it."
32 "Look, I'm dying of starvation!" said Esau. "What good is my birthright to me now?"
33 So Jacob insisted, "Well then, swear to me right now that it is mine." So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the firstborn to his younger brother.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate and drank and went on about his business, indifferent to the fact that he had given up his birthright.
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