Quotes about Sibling rivalry
Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted."
- Genesis 25:30
and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
- Genesis 25:23
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
“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
- Genesis 25:33
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
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
- Genesis 27:14
And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:15