Jacob's twin, ancestor of Edom · Patriarchs, c. 1850 BC

Esau in the Bible

Esau sells his birthright for a bowl of stew and loses his father's blessing to Jacob. Their reunion twenty years later is one of the most generous scenes in Genesis, though his descendants in Edom remain Israel's long-running rivals.

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Verses mentioning Esau

100 occurrences across 85 verses in the King James Version.

  1. Obadiah 1:8

    Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

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  2. Obadiah 1:9

    And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

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  3. Obadiah 1:18

    And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

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  4. Obadiah 1:19

    And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

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  5. Obadiah 1:21

    And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

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  6. Malachi 1:2

    I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

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  7. Malachi 1:3

    And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

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  8. Romans 9:13

    As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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  9. Hebrews 11:20

    By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

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  10. Hebrews 12:16

    Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

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