Genesis 25:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they called his name Esau.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ The first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they named him Esau [hairy].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The first came out red all over, clothed with hair, and she named him Esau.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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 days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, 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 Esau his older son, and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.”

Genesis 27:11

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

Genesis 27:16

and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands and upon the smooth part of his neck;

Genesis 27:23

And 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 was 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 hast thou 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 enter the assembly of the Lord.

Joshua 24:4

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