³¹ But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,

³⁹ Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

¹⁶ lest `there be' any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

¹⁷ For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind `in his father,' though he sought is diligently with tears.

⁴¹ Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.

⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;

³⁰ They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.

²⁵ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:

⁶⁴ But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

⁶ of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

³ And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

³⁴ And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.