Printed Caption:
Esau
sells his birth-right for pottage of Lentiles.
Genesis 25:32,33
And Esau said,
Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall
this birthright do to me?
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him:
and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. (KJV)
Figures
de la Bible (1728)
Illustrated by Gerard
Hoet (1648-1733), and others.
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