Genesis 25: 19 Now
these are the begettings of Yitzhak, son of Avraham.Avraham begot Yitzhak.
20 Yitzhak was forty years old when he took Rivka daughter of
Betuel the Aramean, from the
country of Aram, sister of Lavan the Aramean, for himself as a wife.
21 Yitzhak entreated Yhwh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren,
and Yhwh granted-his-entreaty:
Rivka his wife became pregnant.
22 But the children almost crushed one another inside her,
so she said:
If this be so,
why do I exist?
And she went to inquire of Yhwh.
23 Yhwh said to her:
Two nations are in your body,
two tribes from your belly shall be divided;
tribe shall be mightier than tribe,
elder shall be servant to younger!
24 When her days were fulfilled for bearing, here: twins were in her body!
25 The first one came out ruddy, like a hairy mantle all over,
so they called his name: Esav/Rough-One.
26 After that his brother came out, his hand grasping Esav’s heel,
so they called his name: Yaakov/Heel-Holder.
Yitzhak was sixty years old when she bore them.
27 The lads grew up:
Esav became a man who knew the hunt, a man of the field,
but Yaakov was a plain man, staying among the tents.
28 Yitzhak grew to love Esav, for (he brought) hunted-game for his mouth,
but Rivka loved Yaakov.
29 Once Yaakov was boiling boiled-stew,
when Esav came in from the field, and he was weary.
30 Esav said to Yaakov:
Pray give me a gulp of the red-stuff, that red-stuff,
for I am so weary!
Therefore they called his name: Edom/Red-One.
31 Yaakov said:
Sell me your firstborn-right here-and-now.
32 Esav said:
Here, I am on my way to dying, so what good to me is a firstborn-right?
33 Yaakov said:
Swear to me here-and-now.
He swore to him and sold his firstborn-right to Yaakov.
34 Yaakov gave Esav bread and boiled lentils;
he ate and drank and arose and went off.
Thus did Esav despise the firstborn-right.