TOPICAL BIBLE
Birthright
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Genesis 25:29Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.Genesis 25:30Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.Genesis 25:31Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”Genesis 25:32Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”Genesis 25:33Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.Genesis 25:34Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.Genesis 27:36He 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 48:15He 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 48:16the 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 in the midst of the earth.”Genesis 48:17When 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 48:18Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”Genesis 48:19His 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 seed will become a multitude of nations.”Genesis 48:20He 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 4:22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,Deuteronomy 21:15If a man have 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 be hers who was hated;Deuteronomy 21:16then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:Deuteronomy 21:17but 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 2:15He 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 5:1The 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 reckoned after the birthright.1 Chronicles 5:2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)1 Chronicles 26:10Also 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 21:3Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.Psalm 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.Jeremiah 31:9They 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 8:29For 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 9:12it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”Romans 9:13Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”Colossians 1:15who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.Hebrews 1:6Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”Hebrews 12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.Hebrews 12:23to the general assembly 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 1:5and 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;
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