Jacob, a homebody, cooked a red lentil stew one day. Esau, an outdoorsman, came back from hunting and was very hungry. Esau asked his brother for some stew. Jacob said he would give Esau some stew if Esau sold him his birthright. Esau, impatient and thoughtless, agreed. Thus, Jacob, the younger brother, got in line to inherit more and be the head of the family after Isaac died.