Genesis 25:27

As they grew up, Esau became a skilful hunter, a man who lived out in the fields; but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed about the tents.

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And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

In Context

26Afterwards his brother came holding Esau’s heel with his hand; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

28Isaac loved Esau, for he had a taste for venison; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:9This is the story of Noah. Among the people of his time, Noah was righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 21:20The Lord was with the boy, and he grew up,

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 31:39I did not bring to you the animals which were killed by wild beasts; I bore the loss of it myself; from my hand you required compensation, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

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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