BIRTHRIGHT

Passages on this topic · 32

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 25:34

  Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

• Genesis 48:18

  Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

• Genesis 48:19

  His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Exodus 4:22

  You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

• Deuteronomy 21:15

  If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

• Deuteronomy 21:16

  then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

• Deuteronomy 21:17

  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

• 1 Kings 2:15

  He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.

• 1 Chronicles 5:1

  The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

• 1 Chronicles 5:2

  For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s) —

• 1 Chronicles 26:10

  Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

• 2 Chronicles 21:3

  Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

• Psalms 89:27

  I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

• Jeremiah 31:9

  They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Romans 8:29

  For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

• Romans 9:12

  it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:13

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Colossians 1:15

  who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

• Hebrews 1:6

  When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

• Hebrews 12:16

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

• Hebrews 12:23

  to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

• Revelation 1:5

  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;