Esau
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/157152
- Name (English)
- Esau
- Short name
- Esau
- Short Description
- "Esau[a] in the Hebrew Bible, is the older son of Isaac. He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, and by the prophets Obadiah and Malachi. The New Testament alludes to him in the Epistle to the Romans and in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Esau is the progenitor of the Edomites and the elder brother of Jacob, the patriarch of the Israelites. Esau and Jacob were the sons of Isaac and Rebekah, 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 25.12.2020) - Entity Encoding
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