Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, “Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

The mighty man and the warrior,The judge and the prophet,The diviner and the elder,

And the people will be oppressed,Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;The youth will storm against the elderAnd the inferior against the honorable.

The head is the elder and honorable man,And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.

Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed,

The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth,

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.