Esau sells his first birthright to Jakob, Anonymous, After Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, after Paulus Moreelse, 1609 - 1659 print Jakob and Esau are sitting at the table and shake each other's hand over a bowl with lentils. There is a dog at their feet. On the right in the distance a man kneels at the bed of Abraham. Under the performance is a single-line, Latin text with a description of the scene and a twelve-line, Dutch text from Genesis 25-26. Amsterdam paper engraving Esau, returning hungry from the hunt, sells his first birthright to Jacob for a pottage of lentils

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