Genesis 25:19-26
"The Birth of Jacob and Esau"
Introducing Jacob and Esau! Something I hadn't noticed before was that Rebekah, like Sarah, was childless (some translations say "barren") and Isaac prayed to God asking for children. we seem to have here a sense of parallelism. What that symbolises, if anything, I don't know.
Additionally, we have a forecasting of Edom and Israel's future conflicts through the intrauterine fighting of the two nations' progenitors. God even mentions to Rebekah when she asks about it that two nations will descend and that the older (Esau -> Edom) would serve the younger (Jacob -> Israel). Cool thing is, though, if you look later on in the Bible, you can see this play out in history.
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