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GEN 25:27–25:34 ©

Esaw sells his future inheritance

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25:27 Esaw sells his future inheritance

27As the boys grew up, Esaw got good at hunting, a man of the outdoors, but Yacob was a quiet man who stayed around the tents. 28Yitshak liked the taste of game meat so he loved Esaw, but Rebekah loved Yacob.

29One day, Yacob was cooking some stew when Esaw arrived home from being out, and he was very hungry 30and asked Yacob, “Can I have some of that red stuff because I’m starving.” (Esaw’s nickname became ‘Edom’, meaning ‘red’, because of that.)

31Well, today,” Yacob answered, “sell me your future inheritance.”

32“Listen, I’m dying of starvation,” said Esaw, “so what use would a future inheritance be to me?”

33Well now, make a vow to me,” insisted Yacob.[ref]

So Esaw promised him, effectively selling his future inheritance to Yacob, 34and Yacob gave him some of the lentil stew and some bread. So Esaw ate and drank and left again, thus despising his own inheritance as firstborn son.


27And_grew_up the_boys and_he/it_was ˊĒsāv a_man [who]_knew hunting a_man of_[the]_open_country and_Yaˊₐqoⱱ [was]_a_man quiet [who]_dwelt tents.
28And_loved Yiʦḩāq/(Isaac) DOM ˊĒsāv if/because hunted_game in/on/at/with_taste_he and_Riⱱqāh [was]_loving DOM Yaˊₐqoⱱ.
29And_cooking Yaˊₐqoⱱ cooked_food and_came_in ˊĒsāv from the_field and_he [was]_exhausted.
30And_he/it_said ˊĒsāv to Yaˊₐqoⱱ eat_me please some_of the_red the_red the_this if/because [am]_exhausted I on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in yes/correct/thus/so someone_called his/its_name ʼEdōm.
31And_he/it_said Yaˊₐqoⱱ sell on_the_day DOM birthright_your to_me.
32And_he/it_said ˊĒsāv here I [am]_going to_die and_for_what this to_me [is]_a_birthright.
33And_he/it_said Yaˊₐqoⱱ swear to/for_me on_the_day and_swore to_him/it and_sold DOM birthright_his to_Yaˊₐqoⱱ.
34And_Yaˊₐqoⱱ he_gave to_ˊĒsāv bread and_stew of_lentils and_ate and_drank and_he/it_rose_up and_went_away and_despised ˊĒsāv DOM the_birthright.

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Isaac’s Travels

Genesis 21-35

Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.

GEN 25:27–25:34 ©

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