Genesis 25:23
Adonai said to her, 1 “Two nations are in your womb. 1 Two peoples will be separated from your body. 1 The one people will be stronger than the other people. 1 The elder will serve the younger.” + 25:23. Quoted in Rom 9:12
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24When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Cross References
Genesis 17:4“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 24:60They blessed Rebekah [Securely bound], and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”
Genesis 27:29Let peoples serve you, 2 and nations bow down to you. 1 Be lord over your brothers. 2 Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. 1 Cursed be everyone who curses you. 2 Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
Genesis 27:40By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. 1 It will happen, when you will break loose, 1 that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”
Genesis 33:3He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis 48:19His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
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 →