Genesis 25:24

And whe hir tyme was come to be delyuered beholde: there were.ij. twyns in hir wobe.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

In Context

23And ye LORde sayde vnto her there are.ij. maner of people in the wombe and ij. nations shall springe out of thy bowels and the one nation shalbe myghtier than the other and the eldest shalbe servaunte vnto the yonger.

25And he that came out first was redde and rough ouer all as it were an hyde: and they called his name Esau.

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Cross References

Genesis 38:27When tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered beholde there was.ij. twynnes in hyr wobe.

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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