¹⁹Now these are the generations^g of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac, ²⁰And Isaac was forty years old^h when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife. ²¹And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ²²And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant?”ⁱ And she went to inquire of Yahweh. ²³And Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from birth^j shall be divided. And one people shall be stronger than the other.^k And the elder shall serve the younger.” ²⁴And when her days to give birth were completed,^l then—behold—twins were in her womb. ²⁵And the first came out red, all his body^m was like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau. ²⁶And afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped the heel of Esau, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years oldⁿ at their birth.

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Footnotes

gOr “family records”
hLiterally “a son of forty years”
iLiterally “if so, why this I?”
jLiterally “from your bowels”
kLiterally “people than people shall be stronger”
lOr “full”
mLiterally “of him”
nLiterally “a son of sixty years”