Genesis 25:26

26Afterward his brother came out with ahis hand holding Esau’s heel, so bhis name was called Jacob.
 Jacob means He takes by the heel, or He cheats
Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

Joshua 24:4

4And to Isaac I gave dJacob and Esau. eAnd I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, fbut Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

1 Chronicles 1:34

34Abraham fathered gIsaac. The sons of Isaac: hEsau and iIsrael.

Isaiah 41:8

8 But you, Israel, jmy servant,
Jacob, kwhom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, lmy friend;

Malachi 1:2-3

The Lord’s Love for Israel

2 m“I have loved you,” says the Lord. nBut you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau oJacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet pI have loved Jacob 3but Esau I have hated. qI have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Romans 9:10-13

10And not only so, but ralso when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of shim who calls 12she was told, t“The older will serve the younger.” 13As it is written, uJacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

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