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How like twins often are to one another. We must all of us
again and again have wondered at the likeness, I remember a mother
who had twins so like one another that she was obliged to tie a

piece of ribbon round the arm of one of them in order that she

might be able to know one from the other, and if the mother could
not be sure, we are not surprised, other people made mistakes.

But no one would ever have supposed that the two boys in
the picture were twins. They are not in the least like one
another, but are quite different in appearance. Sometimes, indeed,
children are very like when they are young, but lose the likeness
as they grow older. But even when they were quite little
babies, Esau and Jacob were very unlike, for Esau at his birth
was covered with hair, but Jacob was smooth.

And as they grew up, they became more and more unlike,
not only in their looks but in their ways and tastes and character.
Esau seems to have been a rough, wild, thoughtless lad,’ bent
on enjoying himself, no matter what it cost him, very fond of
shooting and hunting. But there was something good in him, for
his father loved him.