³⁶ And Esau said, ^(A)“Is he not rightly named ^[a]Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

⁷ Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as ^(A)a stranger to them and spoke ^[a]roughly to them. Then he said to them, “Where do you come from?”

And they said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”

¹⁶ then it shall be, ^(A)on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn.

¹⁷ But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn ^(A)by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he ^(B)is the beginning of his strength; ^(C)the right of the firstborn is his.