Quotes about Family
The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
- Genesis 25:25
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
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
“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
- Genesis 26:27
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
And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
- Genesis 26:35
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
- Genesis 27:1
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
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
- Genesis 27:10