12 Bible Verses about Twin Brothers
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When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
After three months we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the "Heavenly Twins" as its figurehead.
When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb. While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first." But then he drew back his hand, and his brother came out before him. She said, "How you have broken out of the womb!" So he was named Perez.read more.
Afterward his brother came out -- the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand -- and he was named Zerah.
"I have shown love to you," says the Lord, but you say, "How have you shown love to us?" "Esau was Jacob's brother," the Lord explains, "yet I chose Jacob and rejected Esau. I turned Esau's mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals."
Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.
Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael (who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together.
The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.
You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative; you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner in his land.
So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."
Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot,
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