Esau and Jacob

Esau and Jacob were children whose destinies were predicted. Said the Lord to Rebekah in response to her inquiry, Why am I thus: "Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the greater shall serve the lesser." As was said in a former article, the Lord spake not directly of the two children but of the nation of which they were to be the progenitors. The one nation was to surpass the...