The Children Struggled Within Her and What the Sages Heard

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 110:17

"And the children struggled together within her" (Genesis 25:22-23). Rabbi Yochanan said: this one ran to kill that one, and that one ran to kill this one. Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said: this one would loosen the commands of that one, and that one would loosen the commands of this one. Rabbi Levi said: do not say that only once he came out of his mother's belly did the adversary attach himself to him; rather, while still in his mother's belly his fist was already stretched out against him. This is what is written, "The wicked are estranged from the womb" (Psalms 58:4 [58:3]).

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