The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.
But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.
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.”
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.
Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:
Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the Lord.
“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob