Trouvé 457 Résultats pour: story of Esau and Jacob

• Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-- (Genesis 2, 4)

• The first to emerge was reddish, and his whole body was like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. (Genesis 25, 25)

• His brother came out next, gripping Esau's heel; so they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. (Genesis 25, 26)

• As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man who lived in the open; whereas Jacob was a simple man, who kept to his tents. (Genesis 25, 27)

• Isaac preferred Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah preferred Jacob. (Genesis 25, 28)

• Once, when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the open, famished. (Genesis 25, 29)

• He said to Jacob, "Let me gulp down some of that red stuff; I'm starving." (That is why he was called Edom.) (Genesis 25, 30)

• But Jacob replied, "First give me your birthright in exchange for it." (Genesis 25, 31)

• "Look," said Esau, "I'm on the point of dying. What good will any birthright do me?" (Genesis 25, 32)

• But Jacob insisted, "Swear to me first!" So he sold Jacob his birthright under oath. (Genesis 25, 33)

• Jacob then gave him some bread and the lentil stew; and Esau ate, drank, got up, and went his way. Esau cared little for his birthright. (Genesis 25, 34)

• When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hivite. (Genesis 26, 34)