Genesis 25:26

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After that, his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

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  • Gen 27:36 : 36 Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'
  • Hos 12:3 : 3 The LORD has a charge against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him for his deeds.
  • Gen 38:28-30 : 28 As she was giving birth, one of them extended his hand, and the midwife tied a scarlet thread around it, saying, 'This one came out first.' 29 But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. She said, 'What a breach you have made for yourself!' So he was named Perez. 30 Afterward, his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and he was named Zerah.

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  • Gen 25:24-25
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    24When the time came for her to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

    25The first came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

  • Gen 27:30
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    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

  • Gen 25:27-33
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    27The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed among the tents.

    28Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    29One day when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, exhausted.

    30Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me gulp down some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.' This is why he was also called Edom.

    31Jacob replied, 'First, sell me your birthright.'

    32Esau said, 'Look, I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?'

    33But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

  • Gen 27:21-23
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    21Then Isaac said to Jacob, 'Come closer so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.'

    22So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'

    23He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

  • Gen 27:35-36
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    35But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'

    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

  • Hos 12:3
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    3The LORD has a charge against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him for his deeds.

  • Gen 27:1
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    1When Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, 'My son,' and Esau replied, 'Here I am.'

  • Gen 27:15-16
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    15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

    16She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the skins of the young goats.

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

    42When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.'

  • Gen 26:35
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    35They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

  • Gen 27:6
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    6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.'

  • Gen 25:19
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    19This is the account of the family line of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac.

  • Gen 27:32
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    32His father Isaac asked him, 'Who are you?' He replied, 'I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.'

  • Gen 35:27
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    27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 32:25
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    25So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

  • Gen 27:11
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    11But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, 'Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a man with smooth skin.'

  • Gen 32:27
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    27Then the man said, 'Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.' But Jacob replied, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.'

  • Gen 28:5
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    5Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob and Esau's mother.

  • Gen 27:19
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    19Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 38:28
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    28As she was giving birth, one of them extended his hand, and the midwife tied a scarlet thread around it, saying, 'This one came out first.'