Book of Jasher, Chapter 27 — Esau Slays Nimrod and Takes the Garments; the Birthright Sold; Nimrod's Kingdom Divided
1And Esau at that time, after the death of Abraham, frequently went into the field to hunt.
2And Nimrod king of Babel — the same was Amraphel — also frequently went with his mighty men to hunt in the field, and to walk about with his men in the cool of the day.
3And Nimrod was observing Esau all the days, for a jealousy had formed in the heart of Nimrod against Esau all the days.
4And on a certain day Esau went into the field to hunt, and he found Nimrod walking in the wilderness with his two men.
5And all his mighty men and his people were with him in the wilderness, but they removed to a distance from him, and they went from him in different directions to hunt; and Esau concealed himself from Nimrod, and he lurked for him in the wilderness.
6And Nimrod and his men who were with him did not know him; and Nimrod and his men frequently walked about in the field at the cool of the day, to know where his men were hunting in the field.
7And Nimrod and two of his men who were with him came to the place where they were, when Esau sprang suddenly from his lurking place, and drew his sword, and hurried and ran to Nimrod, and cut off his head.
8And Esau fought a desperate fight with the two men who were with Nimrod; and when they called out to him, Esau turned to them and struck them to death with his sword.
9And all the mighty men of Nimrod, who had left him to go into the wilderness, heard the cry at a distance; and they knew the voices of those two men, and they ran to learn the cause of it — and they found their king, and the two men who were with him, lying dead in the wilderness.
10And when Esau saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming at a distance, he fled, and thereby escaped; and Esau took the valuable garments of Nimrod — which Nimrod's father had bequeathed to Nimrod, and with which Nimrod prevailed over the whole land — and he ran and concealed them in his house.
11And Esau took those garments and ran into the city on account of Nimrod's men; and he came to his father's house, wearied and exhausted from the fight, and he was ready to die through grief when he approached his brother Jacob, and sat before him.
12And he said to his brother Jacob, Behold, I shall die this day — and why then do I want the birthright? And Jacob acted wisely with Esau in this matter, and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, for it was so brought about by the Lord.
13And Esau's portion in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought from the children of Heth for the possession of a burial ground, Esau also sold to Jacob; and Jacob bought all this from his brother Esau, for value given.
14And Jacob wrote the whole of this in a book, and he attested it with witnesses, and he sealed it, and the book remained in the hands of Jacob.
15And when Nimrod the son of Cush died, his men lifted him up and brought him, in consternation, and buried him in his city; and all the days that Nimrod lived were two hundred and fifteen years, and he died.
16And the days that Nimrod reigned over the people of the land were one hundred and eighty-five years; and Nimrod died by the sword of Esau, in shame and contempt; and the seed of Abraham caused his death, as he had seen in his dream.
17And at the death of Nimrod his kingdom became divided into many divisions; and all those parts that Nimrod had reigned over were restored to the respective kings of the land, who recovered them after the death of Nimrod; and all the people of the house of Nimrod were for a long time enslaved to all the other kings of the land.