 | 1847 - 60 sider
...intelligent traveller been similarly circumstanced, he, perhaps, would have been tempted to say, ' Behold I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do to me ?' Under auch circumstances, the gems of Golconda would not hare satisfied the... | |
 | 1849 - 360 sider
...therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright, and Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die : and what profit shall this birthright do to me ? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day ; and he sware unto him : and he sold his... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1849 - 646 sider
...and they cannot bo content even with a God without them, Exod. v. 7 — 9. Esau says, Gen. xxv. 32. " Behold, I am at the point to die : and what profit shall this birth-right do to me ?" Aud if God go, the pillow is taken from under the saint's head, and all the... | |
 | Margaretta (pseud.) - 1850 - 176 sider
...he does not believe that Jehovah will ever fulfil this promise ; he exclaims with sinful petulance, "Behold, I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright be to me ?" So he sware to Jacob that every blessing which might, by his birthright, properly... | |
 | 1850 - 830 sider
...therefore was his name called *Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, es said unto the LOBD. birthright do to me ? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 250 sider
...was worse behaviour than forcing it from him when he was well and strong. Esau could only reply — " Behold, I am at the point to die ; and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day ; and he sware unto him : and he sold his... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 sider
...of mind he probably supposed would never benefit him, and thus despising his birthright, he says, " Behold I am at the point to die ; and what profit shall this birthright do to me ?" " and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.'' The inhabitants of Eastern nations... | |
 | 1852 - 610 sider
...Esau cares but little for those rights, and is in no condition to stand upon terms ; for he says : " Behold, I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do to me?" Rather a natural reflection for a starving man, certainly ! Besides, it was not... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 586 sider
...ungenerous request, an unbrotherly proposal, and is not of course recorded for imitation. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die : and what profit shall this birthright do to me? That is, not that he feared immediate death from starvation, for there was doubtless... | |
 | None - 1852 - 492 sider
...slavery, " yet," says Parke, " the poor negro, when fainting with hunger, thinks, like Esau of old, 4 behold I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do to me?" The reason why persons do not more frequently sell themselves into slavery is,... | |
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And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 
