Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 25

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The LORD said to her, “The leaders of two nations are in your body. Two nations will come from you, and they will be divided. One of them will be stronger, and the older will serve the younger.”

So Esau said to Jacob, “I am weak with hunger. Let me have some of that red soup.” (That is why people call him “Red.”)

Isaac’s wife could not have children. So Isaac prayed to the LORD for her. The for her. The LORD heard Isaac’s prayer, and he allowed Rebekah to become pregnant.

Esau said, “I am almost dead with hunger, so what good are these rights to me now?” But Jacob said, “First, promise me that you will give them to me.” So Esau made an oath to him and sold his rights as the firstborn son to Jacob.

When the second baby was born, he was holding tightly to Esau’s heel. So that baby was named Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob and Esau were born.

Isaac loved Esau. He liked to eat the animals Esau killed. But Rebekah loved Jacob.