Genesis 25:26 meaning and explanation
After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
Genesis 25:26, Berean Standard Bible
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Rebekah has just given birth to twins, and the second child emerges gripping his brother's heel, as though trying to pull him back. The narrator gives the name its meaning: Jacob sounds like the Hebrew word for heel, and the name will later carry the sense of one who supplants.
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