“Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.”
Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright. The final sentence is the narrator's moral verdict: Esau despised his birthright. Not lost it, not was tricked out of it — despised it. The birthright was worth more than a bowl of stew; Esau treated it as worth less. Hebrews 12:17 notes that afterward, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected — he could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears. The application: what you treat as dispensable — your integrity, your covenant standing, your birthright — will be unavailable to you when you eventually recognize what it was worth.
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