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.

¹⁸ For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,^(A) many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.^{(B) 19} Their destiny^(C) is destruction, their god is their stomach,^(D) and their glory is in their shame.^(E) Their mind is set on earthly things.^(F)