Genesis 25:19–34

¹⁹And these are births of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac; ²⁰and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife. ²¹And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she is barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth, ²²and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, ‘If it is right—why am I thus?’ and she goeth to seek Jehovah. ²³And Jehovah saith to her, ‘Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the one people than the other people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.’ ²⁴And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins are in her womb; ²⁵and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau; ²⁶and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau’s heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac is a son of sixty years in her bearing them. ²⁷And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted with hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob is a plain man, inhabiting tents; ²⁸and Isaac loveth Esau, for his hunting is in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.

²⁹And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he is weary; ³⁰and Esau saith unto Jacob, ‘Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I am weary;’ therefore hath one called his name Edom Red; ³¹and Jacob saith, ‘Sell to-day thy birthright to me.’ ³²And Esau saith, ‘Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me—birthright?’ ³³and Jacob saith, ‘Swear to me to-day:’ and he sweareth to him, and selleth his birthright to Jacob; ³⁴and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright.

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