Quotes about Esau
The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
- Genesis 25:25
After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
- Genesis 25:26
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
- Genesis 25:27
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 25:28
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
- Genesis 25:29
“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
- Genesis 25:32
“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
- Genesis 25:33
Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 25:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Genesis 26:34
Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,
- Genesis 27:5
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
- Genesis 27:6
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
- Genesis 27:11