Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 25

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and he told her: “Your two sons will become two separate nations. The younger of the two will be stronger, and the older son will be his servant.”

and said, “I'm starving to death! Here and now give me some of that red stew!” That's how Esau got the name “Edom.”

Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the LORD to let her have a child, and the LORD answered his prayer.

“I'm about to die,” Esau answered. “What good will those rights do me?” But Jacob said, “Promise me your birthrights, here and now!” And that's what Esau did.

The second baby grabbed on to his brother's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.

Esau would take the meat of wild animals to his father Isaac, so Isaac loved him more, but Jacob was his mother's favorite son.