Genesis 25:25 Meaning The First Came Out Red All Over

Esau, the firstborn, red and covered like a rough coat, is the outer body, the sense-man, the garment you wear and mistake for yourself. He comes first because the physical self always seems to arrive first and claim the birthright, loud and hairy and obvious to the senses.

But the firstborn is only the covering. Behind Esau waits Jacob, the hidden center of imagining, the inner self that is your true identity and cannot be tarnished by anything the outer man goes through. The two are not two people in a distant story; they are the sense-man and the imaginative man living in you now. The self you see in the mirror is Esau, the garment. The one imagining behind it is who you actually are.

The red, hairy one born first is the flesh, the animal outer man who always arrives before the inner. Red is the earth, the clay of Adam, the blood-driven body that opens its eyes on the world of the senses first and claims the birthright of a life by simple priority. The hair covering him like a garment is the coarse sensory nature, the beast-coat a person wears over the finer self still hidden inside.

Esau is that earthy firstborn in everyone, the body-consciousness that comes into a life ahead of the spiritual twin and rules until the younger, quieter self learns to take its place.

Esau: the red earthy body-man, the flesh born first and ruling first Red: the blood and clay of the animal nature, the earth a person is drawn from Hairy garment: the coarse coat of the senses worn over the inner self