Genesis 25:19-26
1599 Geneva Bible
19 ¶ Likewise these are the generations of Isaac Abraham’s son. Abraham begat Isaac.
20 And Isaac was forty years old, when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the [a]Aramite of Padan Aram, and sister to Laban the Aramite.
21 And Isaac prayed unto the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 But the children [b]strove together within her: therefore she said, Seeing it is so, why am I [c]thus? wherefore she went [d]to ask the Lord.
23 And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be divided out of thy bowels, and the one people shall be mightier than the other, and the (A)elder shall serve the younger.
24 ¶ Therefore when her time of deliverance was fulfilled, behold, twins were in her womb.
25 So he that came out first was red, and he was all over as rough as a garment, and they called his name Esau.
26 (B)And afterward came his brother out, and his hand held Esau by the heel, therefore his name was called Jacob. Now Isaac was threescore years old when Rebekah bare them.
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- Genesis 25:20 Or, Syrian of Mesopotamia.
- Genesis 25:22 Or, hurt one another.
- Genesis 25:22 That is, with child, seeing one shall destroy another.
- Genesis 25:22 For that is the only refuge in all our miseries.
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