²⁹ Once when Jacob was cooking some stew,^(A) Esau came in from the open country,^(B) famished. ³⁰ He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew!^(C) I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.^[a])^(D)

³¹ Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.^(E)”

³² “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”

³³ But Jacob said, “Swear^(F) to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright^(G) to Jacob.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.^(H) He ate and drank, and then got up and left.

So Esau despised his birthright.

⁶ Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”^{(A) 7} and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. ⁸ Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women^(B) were to his father Isaac;^{(C) 9} so he went to Ishmael^(D) and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth^(E) and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.^(F)