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Esau 音标拼音: ['is ,ɔ] n. 以扫 以扫 Esau n 1: ( Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottageEsau hairy, Rebekah' s first- born twin son ( Gen. 25: 25). The name of Edom, " red", was also given to him from his conduct in connection with the red lentil " pottage" for which he sold his birthright ( 30, 31). The circumstances connected with his birth foreshadowed the enmity which afterwards subsisted between the twin brothers and the nations they founded ( 25: 22, 23, 26). In process of time Jacob, following his natural bent, became a shepherd; while Esau, a " son of the desert," devoted himself to the perilous and toilsome life of a huntsman. On a certain occasion, on returning from the chase, urged by the cravings of hunger, Esau sold his birthright to his brother, Jacob, who thereby obtained the covenant blessing ( Gen. 27: 28, 29, 36; Heb. 12: 16, 17). He afterwards tried to regain what he had so recklessly parted with, but was defeated in his attempts through the stealth of his brother ( Gen. 27: 4, 34, 38). At the age of forty years, to the great grief of his parents, he married ( Gen. 26: 34, 35) two Canaanitish maidens, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Bashemath, the daughter of Elon. When Jacob was sent away to Padan- aram, Esau tried to conciliate his parents ( Gen. 28: 8, 9) by marrying his cousin Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. This led him to cast in his lot with the Ishmaelite tribes; and driving the Horites out of Mount Seir, he settled in that region. After some thirty years' sojourn in Padan- aram Jacob returned to Canaan, and was reconciled to Esau, who went forth to meet him ( 33: 4). Twenty years after this, Isaac their father died, when the two brothers met, probably for the last time, beside his grave ( 35: 29). Esau now permanently left Canaan, and established himself as a powerful and wealthy chief in the land of Edom ( q. v.). Long after this, when the descendants of Jacob came out of Egypt, the Edomites remembered the old quarrel between the brothers, and with fierce hatred they warred against Israel.
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