Reading Rabbi Eleazar contrasted Esau's jealousy with Reuben's magnanimity. As reports, Esau voluntarily sold his birthright, but as says, "Esau hated Jacob," and as says, "And he said, ‘Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times.'" In Reuben's case, Joseph took Reuben's birthright from him against his will, as reports, "for as much as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph." Nonetheless, Reuben was not jealous of Joseph, as reports, "And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand."