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Genesis 25:27-29
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 25:27-29
Contemporary English Version
Esau Sells His Rights as the First-Born Son
27 As Jacob and Esau grew older, Esau liked the outdoors and became a good hunter, while Jacob lived the quiet life of a shepherd.[a] 28 Esau would take the meat of wild animals to his father Isaac, so Isaac loved him more, but Jacob was his mother's favorite son.
29 One day, when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came home hungry
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- 25.27 of a shepherd: Hebrew “in tents.”
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