Joshua 24:4
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
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Gill's Exposition
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau,.... When Rebekah was barren, so that the children appeared the more to be the gift of God; though Esau perhaps is mentioned, for the sake of what follows:
and I…
Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob After he too and Rebekah had been childless upwards of nineteen years.
Jacob = he that holds by the heel, or supplanter(Gen 25:26).
Esau = hairy, rough; whose robust frame…
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