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

²⁴ Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

³⁹ Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

¹⁶ lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

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

⁴¹ 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"

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

³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

²⁵ But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof;

⁶⁴ But among these there was not a man of them who 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 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?

³⁴ Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.