Genesis 25:25
The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
World Messianic Bible
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
24When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Cross References
Genesis 27:11Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Genesis 27:23He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
Deuteronomy 23:8The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into the LORD’s assembly.
Malachi 1:2“I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD, “Yet 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 →