Genesis 25:24

And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins [are] in her womb;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23And Jehovah saith to her, 'Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the [one] people than the [other] people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'

25and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;

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Cross References

Genesis 38:27And it cometh to pass in the time of her bearing, that lo, twins [are] in her womb;

Joshua 24:4And I give to Isaac, Jacob and Esau; and I give to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons have gone down to Egypt.

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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