Ésaü

Ésaü (Hebrew “eśaw ) is a character of the Old Testament, wire of Isaac and Rebecca. Its history is told in the book of the Genèse. It would have given, against a dish of lenses, its right of seniority to his younger brother Jacob.

Its name probably means “hairy, hirsute” (Arab cf has `thâ ), which it was, while Jacob was glabrous.

Ésaü is called Édom (Hebrew ' edôm : red, russet-red) and will be the ancestor of the Édomites or Iduméens, the people of the father of Hérode Large the.

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It is of Ésaü that the expression " comes; Who goes to hunting loses his place " because the history tells that his/her brother Jacob accepted the blessing of their father, with the assistance of their mother Rebecca, while Ésaü had left to drive out to prepare a meal with his/her father. Isaac, blind man, believed that the son with who it gave his blessing was Ésaü, whereas it acted Jacob who had been made pass for him. The blessing of Isaac should have returned in Ésaü because it had the Droit of seniority.

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