Genesis 25:19-26

¹⁹Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac; ²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. ²¹Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children; and the Lord answered him, and his wife Rebekah conceived. ²²But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why am I in this condition?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. ²³And the Lord said to her,

“Two nations are in your womb;

And two peoples will be separated from your body;

And one people will be stronger than the other;

And the older will serve the younger.”

²⁴When her days leading to the delivery were at an end, behold, there were twins in her womb. ²⁵Now the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau. ²⁶Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.