> and esau was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted after the hearts of men and inveigled them, and esau was a valiant man in the field, and in the course of time went as usual to hunt; and he came as far as the field of seir, the same is edom. > i have loved you, says the lord. but you ask, how have you loved us? was not esau jacobs brother? the lord says. yet i have loved jacob, but esau i have hated, and i have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals. > 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. > then isaac called jacob and blessed him and directed him, you must not take a wife from the canaanite women." > esau took his wives of the daughters of canaan; adah the daughter of elon the hittite, and aholibamah the daughter of anah the daughter of zibeon the hivite: which were a agrief of mind unto isaac and to rebekah.
United States