Genesis 25:26

World English Bible (2000)

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

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  • Gen 27:36 : 36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
  • Hos 12:3 : 3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
  • Gen 38:28-30 : 28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first." 29 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez. 30 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

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  • Gen 25:24-25
    2 verses
    84%

    24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

    25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

  • Gen 27:30
    79%

    30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

  • Gen 25:27-33
    7 verses
    78%

    27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

    28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

    29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

    30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

    31 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."

    32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"

    33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

  • Gen 27:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

    22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

    23 He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

  • Gen 27:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

    36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    75%

    34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • Hos 12:3
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    3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

  • Gen 27:1
    75%

    1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

  • Gen 27:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

    16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    74%

    41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

    42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

  • Gen 26:35
    74%

    35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

  • Gen 27:6
    73%

    6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

  • Gen 25:19
    73%

    19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Gen 27:32
    73%

    32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

  • Gen 35:27
    72%

    27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 32:25
    72%

    25 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

  • Gen 27:11
    72%

    11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

  • Gen 32:27
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    27 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

  • Gen 28:5
    72%

    5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

  • Gen 27:19
    71%

    19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

  • Gen 38:28
    71%

    28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."