Genesis 25:24

And her days to bear are fulfilled, and behold, twins [are] in her womb;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

In Context

23And YHWH says to her, “Two nations [are] in your womb, and two peoples from your bowels are parted; and the [one] people is stronger than the [other] people; and the older serves the younger.”

25and the first comes out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;

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Cross References

Genesis 38:27And it comes to pass in the time of her bearing, that behold, twins [are] in her womb;

Joshua 24:4And I give Jacob and Esau to Isaac; and I give Mount Seir to Esau, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons have gone down to Egypt.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:20-29

Birth of Esau and Jacob. ( b. c. 1837.) 19 And 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 Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire… Read the whole commentary →

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