THE BIRTH OF JACOB AND ESAU

Genesis 25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Genesis 25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.

Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in your womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger.