And the firstborn said unto the [younger], Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the [younger], Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the [younger] arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the [younger].
And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her [younger] son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your [younger] brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the [younger], and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his [younger] brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's [younger] brother.
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her [younger] sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the [younger] Michal:
These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their [younger] brethren.
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy [younger] sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy [younger]: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
And not many days after the [younger] son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Likewise, ye [younger], submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.