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Genesis 25:19-21
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Genesis 25:19-21
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Birth and Youth of Esau and Jacob
19 [a]These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethu′el the Arame′an of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Arame′an. 21 And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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- 25.19 With the birth of Esau and Jacob we enter a new narrative cycle. Jacob, renamed Israel, is represented as the ancestor of the twelve tribes and, therefore, of the whole people; cf. Deut 26.5.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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