Genesis 25:19-34

Young's Literal Translation

¹⁹ And these [are] births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;

²⁰ and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.

²¹ And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she [is] barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

²² and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, `If [it is] right -- why [am] I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.

²³ And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the [one] people than the [other] people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

²⁴ And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins [are] in her womb;

²⁵ and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;

²⁶ and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac [is] a son of sixty years in her bearing them.

²⁷ And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted [with] hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob [is] a plain man, inhabiting tents;

²⁸ and Isaac loveth Esau, for [his] hunting [is] in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.

²⁹ And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he [is] weary;

³⁰ 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];

³¹ and Jacob saith, `Sell to-day thy birthright to me.'

³² And Esau saith, `Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me -- birthright?'

³³ and Jacob saith, `Swear to me to-day:' and he sweareth to him, and selleth his birthright to Jacob;

³⁴ 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.