Genesis 25:23
who said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, two peoples divided from birth, One will be stronger than the other, the elder will serve the younger.”
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24When the time came for her to give birth, she became the mother of twin boys.
Cross References
Genesis 17:4“I make this solemn promise to you: you will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 24:60They also blessed Rebekah, saying to her, “Our sister! May your children and their children become thousands and thousands, may your sons conquer the cities of their enemies!”
Genesis 27:29May peoples be subject to you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down before you, Cursed be all who curse you. and blessed be all who bless you.
Genesis 27:40By your sword you will live, and your brother you will serve. But whenever you will break loose, you will break off his yoke from your neck.”
Genesis 33:3Then Jacob himself went in front of them, and he bowed down to the ground seven times, as he drew near to his brother.
Genesis 48:19But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know, he also will become a people, and he will be great, but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a populous nation.”
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 →