When the boys grew up etc. A parable to a myrtle and a thorn bush that were growing up side by side. When they are little, no person could recognize which of them is a myrtle and which is a thorn bush. When the myrtle grew, it gave off a good fragrance, and the thorn bush put out its thorns. So too was it with Esau and Jacob: The whole time they were little, no person would know which of them is righteous and which of them is wicked. When they grew, Esau became a man who knows hunting, that he would hunt living creatures and kill them. But Jacob was a mild man who stayed in camp, that he learned in the study hall of Ever and in the study hall of Shem.