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Hebrews 12:12–17 ESV

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

Jacob loved Esau because..

Genesis 25:28 ESV

Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Ironically Esau’s strength and the reason why Jacob loved his son ended up being the reason he lost the blessing.

Misleading the blind

Leviticus 19:14 ESV

You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 27:18 ESV

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Dishonor Parents

Exodus 21:15 ESV

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Genesis 27:46 ESV

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

The women made life difficult

Genesis 26:34 ESV

When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,