2 Esdras 3:16

16 And thou didst set apart Jacob for thyself, but Esau thou didst reject; and Jacob became a great multitude.

2 Esdras 3:16 In-Context

14 and thou didst love him, and to him only didst thou reveal the end of the times, secretly by night.
15 Thou didst make with him an everlasting covenant, and promise him that thou wouldst never forsake his descendants; and thou gavest to him Isaac, and to Isaac thou gavest Jacob and Esau.
16 And thou didst set apart Jacob for thyself, but Esau thou didst reject; and Jacob became a great multitude.
17 And when thou didst lead his descendants out of Egypt, thou didst bring them to Mount Sinai.
18 Thou didst bend down the heavens and shake the earth, and move the world, and make the depths to tremble, and trouble the times.
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