Romans 9:12
it was said to her,“The older will serve the younger,”
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- Gen 25:22-23 : 22 But the children struggled inside her, and she said,“Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the LORD, 23 and the LORD said to her,“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
- 2 Sam 8:14 : 14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The LORD protected David wherever he campaigned.
- 1 Kgs 22:47 : 47 There was no king in Edom at this time; a governor ruled.
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13just as it is written:“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
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7nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”
10Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–
11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–
- Gen 25:22-243 verses80%
22But the children struggled inside her, and she said,“Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the LORD,
23and the LORD said to her,“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
24When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
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18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
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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.
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34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.
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29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
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20By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
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40You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”
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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26When 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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37Isaac replied to Esau,“Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
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26“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied,“to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.
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6Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
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10So she said to Abraham,“Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”
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22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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19But his father refused and said,“I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
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28Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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30A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the Lord.
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18Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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2Though Judah was the strongest among his brothers and a leader descended from him, the right of the firstborn belonged to Joseph.)
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16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.
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9This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.
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2“I have shown love to you,” says the LORD, but you say,“How have you shown love to us?”“Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the LORD explains,“yet I chose Jacob
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33But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
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30But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.
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12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
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8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
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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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31But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”
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25So he said,“Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”