Bible Encyclopedia: Murder: Esau

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Jacob and Esau
... it, it is actually true that God did love Jacob, and did not love Esau. ... And more
memorable still, when his sons Levi and Simeon have committed murder in Shethem ...
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Quoted in Jerome, Epist. 36, Ad Damasum, Num. xviii. (From Galland ...
... exhibited the fratricidal Jews by anticipation in Cain, makes the most manifest
disclosure of them now in Esau, showing also the time of the murder: "Let the ...
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Hebrews xii. 14
... he says, then, "follow after holiness: lest there be any, as Esau, profane": that ...
For as the grief of Cain was not of repentance, and the murder proved it; so ...
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The Pentateuch.
... made by God with the earth through Noah, and the law of murder; the confusion of ...
and Jacob; and the exclusion, first of Ishmael and afterwards of Esau, from a ...
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Scenes in the Lives of the Patriarchs.
... it was a fruitless lament, He was inflexible, and Esau wept aloud over his blasted
hopes; plotting at the same time, in his awakened enmity, the murder of Jacob ...
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The Sins of Communities Noted and Punished.
... The murder of Abel was not punished solely on Cain, but also on his family ... Similar
were the consequences which followed the sins of Ham and Esau: But these more ...
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A Man Expects to Reap the Same Kind as He Sows.
... Jacob was the great loser in this transaction. When Esau returned he had to flee
for his life. ... He sowed murder and reaped it in his own family. ...
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John v. 6, 7
... Envy is the mother of murder. Through this Cain slew Abel his brother; through this
Esau (would have slain) Jacob, and his brethren Joseph, through this the ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily xxxvii john v 6.htm

Man's Passions and God's Purpose
... Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, and now the other ... The clumsy
contrivance for murder without criminality, which Reuben suggested, is an ...
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Whether Every Lie is a Sin?
... Jacob also lied when he said that he was Esau, and yet he received a ... Therefore a
man may lawfully lie, to save another from committing murder, or another from ...
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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Genesis 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Torrey's Topical Textbook