20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
21Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.
22And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.
23And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
24And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body.
25And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.
26And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.
