The Birth of Esau and Jacob

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And these are births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;

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and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.

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And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she is barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

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and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, `If it is right--why am I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.

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And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the one people than the other people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

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And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins are in her womb;

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and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;

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and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac is a son of sixty years in her bearing them.

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And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted with hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob is a plain man, inhabiting tents;

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and Isaac loveth Esau, for his hunting is in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.

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