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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 25:27 Catholic Bible: The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man who loved the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/25-27.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/25-27.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/25-27.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/25.htm">Chapter 25</a> > Verse 27</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/25-26.htm" title="Genesis 25:26">◄</a> Genesis 25:27 <a href="../genesis/25-28.htm" title="Genesis 25:28">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/25.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/25.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man who loved the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />As Jacob and Esau grew older, Esau liked the outdoors and became a good hunter, while Jacob lived the quiet life of a shepherd. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/25.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country; whereas Jacob was a simple man, who stayed among the tents.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.</p><p class="hdg">a cunning.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/10-9.htm">Genesis 10:9</a> And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/21-20.htm">Genesis 21:20</a> And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/27-3.htm">Genesis 27:3-5,40</a> Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou hast taken something by hunting, . . . </p><p class="hdg">a plain main.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/6-9.htm">Genesis 6:9</a> These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/28-10.htm">Genesis 28:10,11</a> But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/31-39.htm">Genesis 31:39-41</a> Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/46-34.htm">Genesis 46:34</a> You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/1-1.htm">Job 1:1,8</a> There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/2-3.htm">Job 2:3</a> And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/37-37.htm">Psalm 37:37</a> Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.</p><p class="hdg">dwelling.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/11-9.htm">Hebrews 11:9</a> By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/25.htm">Jacob and Esau</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">26</span>Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him. <span class="reftext">27</span><span class="highl">And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.</span><span class="reftext">28</span>Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/11-9.htm">Hebrews 11:9</a></span><br />By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/10-9.htm">Genesis 10:9</a></span><br />And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/35-7.htm">Jeremiah 35:7</a></span><br />Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow reed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may live many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hebrews/5-13.htm">Acquainted</a> <a href="/genesis/25-24.htm">Boys</a> <a href="/genesis/25-18.htm">Country</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-14.htm">Cunning</a> <a href="/genesis/24-62.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/genesis/25-25.htm">Esau</a> <a href="/genesis/21-20.htm">Expert</a> <a href="/genesis/25-10.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/25-8.htm">Full</a> <a href="/genesis/21-20.htm">Grew</a> <a href="/revelation/9-4.htm">Growth</a> <a href="/genesis/10-9.htm">Hunter</a> <a href="/genesis/10-9.htm">Hunting</a> <a href="/genesis/4-20.htm">Inhabiting</a> <a href="/genesis/25-26.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/21-19.htm">Open</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-4.htm">Peaceful</a> <a href="/genesis/19-29.htm">Plain</a> <a href="/revelation/14-12.htm">Quiet</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-24.htm">Skilful</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/3-10.htm">Skilled</a> <a href="/zechariah/9-2.htm">Skillful</a> <a href="/acts/21-10.htm">Staying</a> <a href="/genesis/13-18.htm">Tents</a> <a href="/1_john/2-18.htm">Youths</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/24-13.htm">Acquainted</a> <a href="/genesis/38-27.htm">Boys</a> <a href="/genesis/25-29.htm">Country</a> <a href="/exodus/26-1.htm">Cunning</a> <a href="/genesis/27-39.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/genesis/25-28.htm">Esau</a> <a href="/exodus/31-3.htm">Expert</a> <a href="/genesis/25-29.htm">Field</a> <a href="/genesis/25-30.htm">Full</a> <a href="/genesis/26-13.htm">Grew</a> <a href="/leviticus/2-14.htm">Growth</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-5.htm">Hunter</a> <a href="/genesis/25-28.htm">Hunting</a> <a href="/joshua/24-18.htm">Inhabiting</a> <a href="/genesis/25-28.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/25-29.htm">Open</a> <a href="/genesis/34-21.htm">Peaceful</a> <a href="/numbers/15-34.htm">Plain</a> <a href="/genesis/34-5.htm">Quiet</a> <a href="/exodus/26-1.htm">Skilful</a> <a href="/exodus/26-1.htm">Skilled</a> <a href="/exodus/26-1.htm">Skillful</a> <a href="/genesis/32-4.htm">Staying</a> <a href="/genesis/26-17.htm">Tents</a> <a href="/genesis/48-16.htm">Youths</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/25-27.htm">Genesis 25:27 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a among and became boys but country Esau field grew hunter in Jacob living man of open peaceful quiet skillful staying tents The up was When while<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/25-27.htm">OT Law: Genesis 25:27 The boys grew (Gen. 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