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Want to know what the Bible says about Esau? Here are 53 Bible verses about Esau from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Jeremiah 49:8 NIV
Turn and flee, hide in deep caves,
    you who live in Dedan,
for I will bring disaster on Esau
    at the time when I punish him.
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Obadiah 1:6 NIV
But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!
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Genesis 27:1 NIV
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”
“Here I am,” he answered.
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Genesis 33:4 NIV
But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.
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Genesis 25:28 NIV
Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Genesis 25:27-28 NIV
27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Obadiah 1:18 NIV
Jacob will be a fire
    and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
    and they will set him on fire and destroy him.
There will be no survivors
    from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.
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Genesis 28:6 NIV
Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
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Genesis 25:29 NIV
Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
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Genesis 25:34 NIV
Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.
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