Get Birthright Jacob And Esau Images. While esau is strong and a good hunter, jacob is meek and he is more into reading. He ate and drank, got up and left, and esau mocked the birthright.2.

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And esau came from the field, and he was faint: First he took my birthright and now he took. 30 and esau said to jacob, feed me, i pray thee, with that same red pottage;

Therefore was his name called edom.

He sold it for a mess of pottage. But jacob liked to stay at home. Jacob and esau are twins who didn't get along. The characters and heroes of the old testament are neither infallible, nor above jacob agrees, though only in exchange for esau's birthright.