Rebekah is pregnant with twins, and there is a war being fought in her womb. She wondered, since her pregnancy was enabled by an intervention from God - why was is so violent and painful? She asked God:
“Why is this happening to me?” The Lord said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you will be separated;
one people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.”
Rebekah gives birth to twins: Esau and Jacob. Esau's children will become the Edomites, while Jacob's line becomes the Israelites. The struggle they started in their mother's womb continued down through generations.
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