Genesis 27:36

27:36 Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! ¹  He has tripped me up ²  two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

Genesis 36:6-7

36:6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from ³  Jacob his brother 36:7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled ⁴  was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Hebrews 12:16

12:16 And see to it that no one becomes ⁵  an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. ⁶ 

[27:36]  ¹ tn Heb “Is he not rightly named Jacob?” The rhetorical question, since it expects a positive reply, has been translated as a declarative statement.

[27:36]  ² sn He has tripped me up. When originally given, the name Jacob was a play on the word “heel” (see Gen 25:26). The name (since it is a verb) probably means something like “may he protect,” that is, as a rearguard, dogging the heels. This name was probably chosen because of the immediate association with the incident of grabbing the heel. Esau gives the name “Jacob” a negative connotation here, the meaning “to trip up; to supplant.”

[36:6]  ³ tn Heb “from before.”

[36:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “land of their settlements.”

[12:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “that there not be any,” continuing from v. 15.

[12:16]  ⁶ sn An allusion to Gen 27:34-41.