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• "I had scarcely finished saying this prayer to myself when Rebekah came out with a jug on her shoulder. After she went down to the spring and drew water, I said to her, 'Please let me have a drink.' (Genesis 24, 45)

• 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)

• 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)

• Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Listen! I overheard your father tell your brother Esau, (Genesis 27, 6)

• "But my brother Esau is a hairy man," said Jacob to his mother Rebekah, "and I am smooth-skinned! (Genesis 27, 11)

• So Jacob went and got them and brought them to his mother; and with them she prepared an appetizing dish, such as his father liked. (Genesis 27, 14)