“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

His father Isaac asked, “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” he replied, “Esau!”

Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

At that time,” the Lord says, “I will destroy the wise sages of Edom! the advisers from Esau’s mountain!

Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain!

Those who have been delivered will go up on Mount Zion in order to rule over Esau’s mountain. Then the Lord will reign as King!

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, “The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”

When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

These were the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

The descendants of Jacob will be a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame. The descendants of Esau will be like stubble. They will burn them up and devour them. There will not be a single survivor of the descendants of Esau!” Indeed, the Lord has spoken it.

When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.