Genesis 25:32
Good News Translation
Esau said, "All right! I am about to die; what good will my rights do me?"

New Revised Standard Version
Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”

Contemporary English Version
"I'm about to die," Esau answered. "What good will those rights do me?"

New American Bible
“Look,” said Esau, “I am on the point of dying. What good is the right as firstborn to me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?

at the point to die.

Job 21:15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

Job 22:17 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

Job 34:9 For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

birthright.

Exodus 22:9 To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.

Context
Esau Sells His Birthright
31And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright. 32He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?33Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:31
And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

Genesis 25:33
Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.

Genesis 27:36
But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?

Genesis 25:31
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