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Esau
Biblical character

The elder son of Isaac, he is depicted as his father's favourite son, but he was deprived of Isaac's blessing and his birthright by his cunning brother Jacob (Genesis 27). The story explains why Esau's descendants, the Edomites, were thereafter hostile to Jacob's descendants, the Israelites.