wow- thank you
Not very nice of his brother to refuse him food when he is starving, unless he turns over everything he owns.
Jacob and his mother were two sneaky people. It was her idea to deceive Isaac, enabling Jacob to receive the full blessing from his father.
The Hebrew word Edom means “red”, and is derived from the name of its founder, Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, because he was born “red all over”. As a young adult, he sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for “red pottage”. The Tanakh describes the Edomites as descendants of Esau.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edom
“Not very nice of his brother to refuse him food when he is starving, unless he turns over everything he owns.”
You’ll find that most people in the Bible do a lot of bad things.
the historical account of Essau has far reaching long terms effects- I beleive it is why we have such tensions in the middle east today
” In dealing with the root of the Arab conflict, we are concerned with two key individuals in Genesis, Ishmael and Esau. ...
http://www.focusonjerusalem.com/TheRootsoftheIsraeli-ArabConflict.htm
Esau had been out for the day on a hunt. Why would he be actually starving, when presumably he ate in the morning, not to mention the previous day?
I think Esau was just being a drama queen.
Jacob is still a creep, of course.