16 You set apart Jacob for yourself, but rejected Esau. Jacob became a great multitude. (WEB)
2 Esdras 3:16
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Psalms 135:3–5
3 Hallelujah, for the LORD is good; sing praises to His name, for it is lovely. 4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession. 5 For I know that the LORD is great; our Lord is above all gods.
Joshua 24:3–5
3 But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac, 4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to… 5 …
Malachi 1:2–4
2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved, 3 but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals…
Romans 9:12–14
12 not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” 14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
Book of Jubilees 15:29–31
29 For the command is ordained for a covenant, that they should observe it for ever among all the children of Israel. (JUB) 30 For Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau, the Lord did not cause to approach Him, and he chose them not because they are the children o… (JUB)
Psalms 105:5–7
5 Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced, 6 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. 7 He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.
2 Esdras 6:8–10
8 He said to me, “From Abraham to Isaac, because Jacob and Esau were born to him, for Jacob’s hand held Esau’s heel from the beginning. (WEB) 9 For Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the one that follows. (WEB) 10 The beginning of a man is his hand, and th… (WEB)
Epistle of Barnabas 13:2–4
2 Hear then what the scripture saith concerning the people; And Isaac prayed concerning Rebecca his wife, for she was barren. And she conceived. Then Rebecca went out to enquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her; Two nations are in thy womb, and two peopl… (BRN)
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