¹⁹This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac and his descendants. Abraham was the father of Isaac. ²⁰Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. ²¹Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. ²²When the children inside her were struggling with each other, she said, “If it’s like this now, what will become of me?”So she went to ask the Lord.

²³The Lord said to her,

“Two countries are in your womb.

Two nations will go their separate ways from birth.

One nation will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.”

²⁴When the time came for her to give birth, she had twins. ²⁵The first one born was red. His whole body was covered with hair, so they named him Esau ^[Hairy^[. ²⁶Afterwards, his brother was born with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, and so he was named Jacob ^[Heel^[. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.

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[Proper names or foreign words whose meaning is significant for understanding a particular Bible passage are translated in brackets following the name or phrase