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Genesis 25:25-27
Wycliffe Bible
Genesis 25:25-27
Wycliffe Bible
25 He that went out first was red, and all rough in the manner of a skin; and his name was called Esau.
26 Anon the other went out (And at once the other went out), and held with his hand the heel of his brother; and therefore he called him Jacob[a]. (And) Isaac was sixty years eld, when the little children were born.
27 And when they were waxen, Esau was a man knowing of hunting, and a man (who was) an earth-tiller; forsooth Jacob was a simple man, and dwelled in tabernacles. (And when they were fully grown, Esau was a man knowledgeable about hunting, and who worked the soil, or was a farmer; and Jacob was a simple man, who stayed at home in the tents.)
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- Genesis 25:26 The name sounds like the Hebrew for ‘He who takes by the heel, or supplants’.
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