Genesis 27:29

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²⁹May nations serve you
    and peoples bow down to you.^(A)
Be lord over your brothers,
    and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.^(B)
May those who curse you be cursed
    and those who bless you be blessed.^(C)”

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Genesis 27:29 in all English translations

Numbers 24:18

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¹⁸Edom^(A) will be conquered;
Seir,^(B) his enemy, will be conquered,^(C)
but Israel^(D) will grow strong.

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Malachi 1:2-5

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Israel Doubts God’s Love

²“I have loved^(A) you,” says the Lord.

“But you ask,^(B) ‘How have you loved us?’

“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,^(C) ³but Esau I have hated,^(D) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland^(E) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.^(F)”

⁴Edom^(G) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild^(H) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.^(I) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.^(J) ⁵You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great^(K) is the Lord—even beyond the borders of Israel!’^(L)

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Romans 9:10-13

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¹⁰Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.^(A) ¹¹Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad^(B)—in order that God’s purpose^(C) in election might stand: ¹²not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”^[a]^(D) ¹³Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”^[b]^(E)