Bible Verses About Birthright

And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he is weary;

and Esau saith unto Jacob, `Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I am weary;' therefore hath one called his name Edom Red ;

and Jacob saith, `Sell to-day thy birthright to me.'

And Esau saith, `Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me--birthright?'

and Jacob saith, `Swear to me to-day:' and he sweareth to him, and selleth his birthright to Jacob;

and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright.

`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one--the first-born.

But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him is the right of the first-born.

As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel--for he is the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and he is not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,

for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright is to Joseph.

`The greater shall serve the less;'

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'