Genesis Chapter 25 verse 25 Holy Bible
And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment. And they called his name Esau.
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And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.
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And the first came out red -- all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
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And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
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And the first was born red, all over like a hairy garment: and they called his name Esau.
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The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
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and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - And the first came out red, - Adhoni, πυῥῤάκης (LXX.), rufus (Vulgate), red-haired (Gesenius), of a reddish color (Lange), containing an allusion to Adham, the red earth - all over like an hairy garment. Literally, all of him as a cloak of hair (not, as the LXX., Vulgate, et alii, all of him hairy, like a cloak); the fur cloak, or hair mantle, forming one notion (Gesenius). The appearance of the child's body, covered with an unusual quantity of red hair, was "a sign of excessive sensual vigor and wildness" (Keil), "a foreboding of the animal violence of his character" (Kalisch), "the indication of a passionate and precocious nature" (Murphy). And they called his name Esau - "the hairy one," from an unused root signifying to be covered with hair (Gesenius).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) Red.--Heb., admoni, a secondary reason for the name Edom. (See Genesis 25:30,)All over like an hairy garment.--Heb., all of him--that is, completely--like a garment of hair: words rendered "a rough garment" in Zechariah 13:4, where it is used of the jacket of sheepskin worn by the prophets. It appears, therefore, that Esau's body was entirely covered with red down, which developed in time into hair as coarse as that of a kid (Genesis 27:16), and betokened a strong and vigorous, but sensual nature.Esau.--The Jewish commentators form this name from the verb to make, and render it well-made; but the usual explanation is hairy, from a word now extant only in Arabic.