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Genesis - ch 25 v 21 - 34
- And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.
- But the children struggled in her womb: and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.
- And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.
- And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.
- He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand, and therefore he was called Jacob.
- Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.
- And when they were grown up, Esau became a skillful hunter, and a husbandman, but Jacob a plain man dwelt in tents.
- Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.
- And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,
- Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.
- And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.
- He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me.
- Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.
- And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.
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