Holy Scripture
Genesis 25:23
A church father on this verse
“I think that this can be said also of each of us as individuals that "two nations and two peoples are within you." For there is a people of virtue within us, and there is no less a people of vice within us. "For from our heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies" but also "deceits, contentions…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
23And the Lord said to her, There are two nations in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy belly, And one people shall excel the other, And the elder shall serve the younger.
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In context
21And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebekah his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebekah conceived in her womb.
22And the babes leaped within her; and she said, If it will be so with me, why is this to me? And she went to inquire of the Lord.
— Genesis 25:23 —
24And the days were fulfilled that she should be delivered, and she had twins in her womb.
25And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau.