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Selected Verse: Genesis 25:32 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ge 25:32 |
King James |
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Esau said . . . I am at the point to die--that is, I am running daily risk of my life; and of what use will the birthright be to me: so he despised or cared little about it, in comparison with gratifying his appetite--he threw away his religious privileges for a trifle; and thence he is styled "a profane person" (Heb 12:16; also Job 31:7, Job 31:16; Job 6:13; Phi 3:19). "There was never any meat, except the forbidden fruit, so dear bought, as this broth of Jacob" [BISHOP HALL]. |
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.