The Twins Are Born

19These are the generations of Isaac, son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac.

20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

21And Isaac prayed to Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. And Yahweh answered him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

22And the children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is so, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of Yahweh.

23And Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you; and one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

24When her days to give birth were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25The first came out reddish, all of him like a hairy cloak, and they called his name Esau.

26Afterward his brother came out, and his hand was grasping Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.