³⁴ Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.

²⁴ They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

¹⁸ For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;

¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

³² If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

⁴¹ See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

¹⁸ And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

¹⁹ And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

²⁰ And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.

¹⁵ What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

⁵ But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:

¹³ And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.

¹³ But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

¹⁵ So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

¹⁶ And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

¹⁷ For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.