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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
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And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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And the children struggled together within her: and she said, If [it is] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
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And the LORD said to her, Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels: and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
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And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, [there were] twins in her womb.