Genesis 25:26
When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
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- Gen 27:36 : 36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
- Hos 12:3 : 3 Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.
- Gen 38:28-30 : 28 While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying,“This one came out first.” 29 But then he drew back his hand, and his brother came out before him. She said,“How you have broken out of the womb!” So he was named Perez. 30 Afterward his brother came out– the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand– and he was named Zerah.
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- Gen 25:24-252 verses84%
24When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
25The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.
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30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
- Gen 25:27-337 verses78%
27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
28Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.
30So Esau said to Jacob,“Feed me some of the red stuff– yes, this red stuff– because I’m starving!”(That is why he was also called Edom.)
31But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”
32“Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”
33But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
- Gen 27:21-233 verses77%
21Then Isaac said to Jacob,“Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”
22So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said,“The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”
23He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
- Gen 27:35-362 verses76%
35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
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34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.
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3Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.
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1Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him,“My son!”“Here I am!” Esau replied.
- Gen 27:15-162 verses74%
15Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.
- Gen 27:41-422 verses74%
41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
42When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
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35They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.
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6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
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19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.
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32His father Isaac asked,“Who are you?”“I am your firstborn son,” he replied,“Esau!”
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27So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
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25When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
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11“But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah,“and I have smooth skin!
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27The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”
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5So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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19Jacob said to his father,“I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”
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28While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying,“This one came out first.”