Genesis 25
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Genesis 25:25-30

25The first one came out red-looking, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

26After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

27When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

28Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

30He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.

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