27 As Jacob and Esau grew older, Esau liked the outdoors and became a good hunter, while Jacob settled down and became a shepherd.
28 Esau would take the meat of wild animals to his father Isaac, and so Isaac loved him more, but Jacob was his mother's favourite son.
29 One day, Jacob was cooking some stew, when Esau came home hungry
30 and said, “I'm starving to death! Give me some of that red stew at once!” That's how Esau got the name “Edom”.
31 Jacob replied, “Sell me your rights as the firstborn son.”
32 “I'm about to die,” Esau answered. “What good will those rights do me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Promise me your birthrights, here and now!” And that's what Esau did.