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12 For even before the twins were born, and therefore had not done anything good or bad, Rebecca was told [Gen. 25:23], “The older one [i.e., Esau] will serve the younger one [i.e., Jacob].” This was so that God’s purpose of choosing and calling [whomever He wanted to] might prevail, instead of [it depending on] what a person did.
13 Just as it is written [Mal. 1:2-3], “I [i.e., God] loved Jacob, but hated Esau.”