Genesis 25:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle, so they named him Esau.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they named him Esau [hairy].

American Standard Version (1901)

And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

Common English Bible

The first came out red all over, clothed with hair, and she named him Esau.

Catholic Public Domain Version

He who departed first was red, and entirely hairy like a pelt; and his name was called Esau. At once the other departed and he held his brother's foot in his hand; and because of this he was called Jacob.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand, and therefore he was called Jacob.

Genesis 25:25 Cross References

Genesis 25:24

When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb.

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, “My son,” and he answered, “Here I am.”

Genesis 27:11

But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a man of smooth skin.

Genesis 27:16

and she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Genesis 27:23

He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands, so he blessed him.

1 Chronicles 1:34

Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,

Numbers 20:14

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has befallen us,

Deuteronomy 23:8

The children of the third generation that are born to them may come into the assembly of the Lord.

Joshua 24:4

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.