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Esau
עֵשָׂו
Esau and Jacob (1919) by Adolf Hulf
Born
Canaan (present-day Israel)
Died
Canaan
Spouses
Adah
Aholibamah
Basemath
Children
Eliphaz
Reuel
Jeush
Jaalam
Korah
Parents
Isaac (father)
Rebecca (mother)
Relatives
Jacob (twin brother)
Abraham (grandfather)
Sarah (grandmother)
Laban (uncle)
Ishmael (uncle)
Joseph and other 11 leaders of the tribes of Israel (nephews)
Dinah (only niece)
Esau[a] is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible. He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis[3] and by the prophets Obadiah[4] and Malachi.[5] The Christian New Testament alludes to him in the Epistle to the Romans[6] and in the Epistle to the Hebrews.[7]
According to the Hebrew Bible, Esau is the progenitor of the Edomites and the elder brother of Jacob, the patriarch of the Israelites.[8] Jacob and Esau were the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Of the twins, Esau was the first to be born with Jacob following, holding his heel. Isaac was sixty years old when the boys were born.
Esau, a "man of the field", became a hunter[1] who had "rough"[2] qualities that distinguished him from his twin brother. Among these qualities were his redness and noticeable hairiness.[9] Jacob was a plain or simple man, depending on the translation of the Hebrew word tam (which also means "relatively perfect man"). Jacob's color was not mentioned.[8] Throughout Genesis, Esau is frequently shown as being supplanted by his younger twin, Jacob (Israel).[10]
According to the Muslim tradition, the prophet Yaqub, or Israel, was the favorite of his mother, and his twin brother Esau was the favorite of his father, prophet Ishaq, and he is mentioned in the "Story of Ya'qub" in Qisas al-Anbiya.
^ abEaston, M. Illustrated Bible Dictionary, (ISBN 1596059478, ISBN 978-1-59605-947-4, 2006, p. 236
^ abMandel, D. The Ultimate Who's Who in the Bible, (ISBN 0882703722.ISBN 978-0-88270-372-5), 2007, p. 175
^Genesis 25
^Obadiah 1:8–21
^Malachi 1:2,3
^Romans 9:13
^Hebrews 11:20,12:16
^ abMetzger & Coogan (1993). Oxford Companion to the Bible, pp. 191–92.
^Genesis 25:25
^Attridge & Meeks. The Harper Collins Study Bible, (ISBN 0060786841, ISBN 978-0-06-078684-7 ), 2006, p. 40
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