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A nearly empty plain clay bowl of lentil stew and a torn piece of bread on a rough ancient table, fading light from a tent entrance, somber still life with deep shadows. No people, coins, contract, text or symbols.
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Hebrews 12:16-17

A meal and a birthright

Run with endurance · Hebrews 12

Story guide: Esau’s single meal becomes the warning’s concrete image: a lasting inheritance traded for an immediate appetite. The text also preserves his later grief over the blessing.

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16that no one be sexually immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for a change of mind, though he sought it with tears.

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