Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Jacob said, Sell me . . . thy birthright--that is, the rights and privileges of the first-born, which were very important, the chief being that they were the family priests (Exodus 4:22) and had a double portion of the inheritance (Deuteronomy 21:17).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Genesis 25:19
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