Genesis 25:23
Yahweh said to her, 1 “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. 1 One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
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24When it was time for her to give birth, 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, and said to her, 1 “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, 1 and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.”
Genesis 27:29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. 1 Be master over your brothers, 1 and may your mother's sons bow down to you. 1 May every one who curses you be cursed; 1 may every one who blesses you be blessed.”
Genesis 27:40By your sword you will live, and you will serve your brother. 1 But when you rebel, you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
Genesis 33:3He himself went on ahead of them. He bowed toward 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. Yet his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants 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 →