Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own d
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and
“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because o
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grie
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he purs
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and c
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph m
The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses cam
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob bu
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and thei
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike A
Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at t
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.