Ephesians 1:4-5

4 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world…

5 Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His
will,

1 Peter 1:2 Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father…

Romans 9:11, 16
11 Though the children had not yet been born nor had done anything good or bad (that the purpose of
God according to selection might remain, not of works but of Him who calls),
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

Romans 8:28-29
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called
according to [His] purpose.
29 …that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;

Genesis 25
20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of
Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.

21 And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife because she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated of him,
and Rebekah his wife conceived.

22 And the children struggled with each other within her. And she said, If it is so, why am I like this? And
she went to inquire of Jehovah.

23 And Jehovah said to her,

Two nations are in your womb, / And two peoples shall be separated from your bowels. / And the one
people shall be stronger than the other people. / And the older shall serve the younger.

24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25 And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

26 And after that his brother came forth, and his hand was holding on to Esau’s heel, so his name was
called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

27 And when the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a quiet
man, dwelling in tents.

28 Now Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29 And Jacob cooked a stew. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Let me swallow down some of the red stew, that red stew there, for I am
faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.

31 And Jacob said, First sell me your birthright.

32 And Esau said, I am now about to die. Of what use then is this birthright to me?

33 And Jacob said, First swear to me. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose up and went away. Thus
Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 27
1 Now when Isaac was old, and his eyes had become so dim that he could not see, he called Esau his
older son and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Here I am.

2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, and I do not know the day of my death.

3 Now then, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt
game for me,

4 And prepare for me a tasty meal, such as I love, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you
before I die.

5 Now Rebekah had been listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. So when Esau went to the field to
hunt for game to bring it home,

6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, I just heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

7 Bring me game, and prepare for me a tasty meal so that I may eat it and bless you before Jehovah
before my death.

8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

9 Go now to the flock, and take two choice kids for me from there, and I will prepare them as a tasty
meal for your father, such as he loves.

10 Then you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death.

11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth
man.
12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a
curse and not a blessing.

13 And his mother said to him, Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for
me.

14 And he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared a tasty meal,
such as his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put
them on Jacob her younger son.

16 And she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

17 And she put the tasty meal and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of Jacob her son.

18 And he came to his father and said, My father. And he said, Here I am. Who are you, my son?

19 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Now rise up; sit up
and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.

20 And Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because
Jehovah your God put it in my way.

21 And Isaac said to Jacob, Please come near that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are
really my son Esau or not.

22 And Jacob came near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the
hands are Esau’s hands.

23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he
blessed him.

24 And he said, Are you really my son Esau? And he said, I am.

25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that I may bless you. So he brought
it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

26 Then his father Isaac said to him, Please come near and kiss me, my son.

27 So he came near and kissed him; and when Isaac smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him
and said,
See, the smell of my son — / Like the smell of a field / Which Jehovah has blessed.
28 And may God give you / Of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, / And an abundance of
grain and new wine.

29 Let peoples serve you, / And nations bow down to you. / Be lord over your brothers, / And let your
mother’s sons bow down to you. / Cursed be those who curse you, / And blessed be those who bless
you.

30 And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had just gone out from the presence of
Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

31 And he also had prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my
father rise up, and eat some of his son’s game, that you may bless me.

32 And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.

33 And Isaac trembled very greatly and said, Who was it then who hunted game and brought it to me, so
that I ate of it all before you came and blessed him? And blessed will he be.

34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a very great and bitter cry and said to his
father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

35 And he said, Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.

36 And Esau said, Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took
away my birthright, and behold now he has taken away my blessing. Then he said, Have you not
reserved a blessing for me?

37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, I have already made him your lord, and all his brothers I have
given to him for servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. And what then shall I do
for you, my son?

38 And Esau said to his father, Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my
father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in
his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will slay my brother Jacob.

42 And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, so she sent and called Jacob her younger
son and said to him, Now your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

43 Therefore, my son, obey my voice now, and rise up; flee to Laban my brother at Haran,

44 And stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away,
Genesis 28

5 And Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramaean,
the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.

11 And he came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took one
of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and he lay down in that place.

12 And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and
there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

13 And there was Jehovah, standing above it; and He said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your
father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give to you and to your seed.

14 And your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east
and to the north and to the south, and in you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be
blessed.

15 And, behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will cause you to return to this
land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.

16 And Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know it.

17 And he was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God,
and this is the gate of heaven.

18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head, and he set
it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.

19 And he called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz previously.

20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will
give me bread to eat and garments to put on,

21 So that I return to my father’s house in peace, then Jehovah will be my God,

22 And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God’s house; and of all that You give me I will
surely give one tenth to You.