Twins

How Nave’s arranged it

• Jacob and EsauGenesis 25:24–26
• Pharez and ZerahGenesis 38:27–30

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 25:24–26

   When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:24–262 voices

   "And her days were fulfilled," the text says, "that she should give birth, and there were twins in her womb." This statement, that is, "her days were fulfilled that she should give birth," is almost never written except of holy women. For this is said of this Rebekah and of Elizabeth the mother of John and of Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. Whence a birth of this kind seems to me to show something extraordinary and beyond other human beings. The fulfillment of the days seems to indicate the birth of perfect offspring.

   “And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,.... The nine months were up from the time of her conception; or, as the Targum of Jonathan, when the two hundred and seventy days she went with child were completed: behold, there were twins in her womb; as was perceived by the midwife; a double mercy was granted, more given than asked for; probably only one child was asked for, but two given.

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2. Genesis 38:27–30

   When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

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