Online on November 17, 2026
Length: 6 min 59 · Watch on YouTube
The story
The Twins. Isaac and Rebekah have been waiting for a child for twenty years. Isaac prays, and Rebekah gives birth to twins: Esau, all red, and Jacob, who is holding his brother’s heel. Esau becomes a hunter, Jacob stays near the tents. One day, Esau comes back from the fields, worn out and starving. Jacob is cooking lentil soup. “First, sell me your birthright.” For a bowl of soup, Esau gives up his treasure as the firstborn son. Grandma Adjoua tells this story to Nia, who is ready to trade her mango tree for a flatbread.
The Bible passage
From the book of Genesis, chapter 25, verses 19 to 34.
In this episode
Each time mark opens the video on YouTube at the right moment.
The song: Do not sell your treasure
Do not sell your treasure for a bowl of soup.
What matters forever, keep it in your heart!
The children sing it at the end of the episode, at 5:38.
Let’s talk about it
- How are Esau and Jacob different?
- What does Esau trade for a bowl of soup?
- Have you ever been sorry about a trade or a choice you made too fast?
- What matters a lot to you, that you would never want to trade?
To remember: Do not sell your treasure for a bowl of soup.
To do: Draw your treasure: what matters most to you and what you want to keep.
Printables
Also in French
The series also exists in French as “La Bible sous le baobab”, with the same episodes and the same songs.
This episode in French