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(Genesis 25:26).

Esau = hairy, rough; whose robust frame and rough aspect were the type of a wild and daring nature.

mount Seir = "rough" or "rugged," extended along the east side of the valley of Arabah, from the Dead Sea to the Elamitic Gulf. The name may either have been derived from Seir the Horite, who appears to have been the chief of the aboriginal inhabitants (Genesis 36:20), or, what is perhaps more probable, from the rough aspect of the whole country. These Horites, the excavators of those singular rock-dwellings found in such numbers in the ravines and cliffs around Petra, were dispossessed by the descendants of Esau (Deuteronomy 2:12; Deuteronomy 2:22), they were divided into tribes under a sheikh, or "duke" (Genesis 36:20-30).

but Jacob who alone was to have Canaan for himself and his posterity, "went down into Egypt," as is related in Genesis 45:1-28; Genesis 46:6; Acts 7:15.

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