Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.
Genesis 25:30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.
Genesis 25:32He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?
Deuteronomy 21:16And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son of the hated.
Deuteronomy 21:17But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.
1 Chronicles 5:1Now the sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was his firstborn: but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his first birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he was not accounted for the firstborn.
1 Chronicles 5:2But of the race of Juda, who was the strongest among his brethren, came the princes: but the first birthright was accounted to Joseph.)