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n. - (Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.

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  • The principal can say with the pastor, "My brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man."
  • See an instance of such an emulation in Esau, Gen. xxviii.
  • And on a time he called Esau his oldest son and said to him:
  • And the first one came forth red, all over like a hairy garment, and they called his name Esau (Hairy).
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