Given by: the angel of the presence to Moses on Sinai, retelling how Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. Given to: Moses, and through him to all tempted to despise what is sacred for what is immediate.

The birthright carried the covenant blessing and the leadership of the family; to trade it for a meal was to treat the holy as worthless, and Jubilees marks Esau's very name, Edom, with the memory of his folly.

And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and pottage, and he eat till he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright; for this reason was Esau's name called Edom, on account of the red pottage which Jacob gave him for his birthright.

Esau trades his birthright for a bowl of pottage and despises it — the warning of a sacred inheritance forfeited for a moment's appetite.

Jubilees 24:6

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour