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God told Rebekah, “You will give birth to two sons. Their descendants will become two different nations. They will struggle with each other. But the nation coming from your older son will have to obey the nation coming from your younger son.”

This is direct quotation. It can also be stated as an indirect quotation: “God told Rebekah that she would give birth to two sons. Their descendants would become two different nations. They would struggle with each other. But the nation coming from her older son would have to obey the nation coming from her younger son.” (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations)

They will struggle with each other

Both the two sons and the nations that will come from them will continually fight with each other. Compare to 06:05.

your older son

Even though the babies were twins, the baby that came out first would be treated as the older son.