Genesis 25:25

And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

In Context

24And the days were fulfilled that she should be delivered, and she had twins in her womb.

26And after this came forth his brother, and his hand took hold of the heel of Esau; and she called his name Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when Rebecca bore them.

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Cross References

Genesis 27:11And Jacob said to his mother Rebecca, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I a smooth man.

Genesis 27:23And he knew him not, for his hands were as the hands of his brother Esau, hairy; and he blessed him,

Deuteronomy 23:8If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.

Malachi 1:2I have loved you, says the Lord. And you⌃ said, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: yet + 1:2 Rom 9:13 I loved Jacob,

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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