Background:
Isaac was born in 2067 BC. Issac was sixty when he gave birth to Jacob & Esau. Esau was about 13-14 when he sold his birthright to Jacob ( 13-14 also twins).
Genesis 25:27 And the boys [5288 naar] grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis 25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob..
5288. naar, nah´-ar; from 5287; (concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age):—babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Adolescence
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one.
Jewish children reach the age of responsibility for their own actions at 13 years. However, God's instructions in the Bible did not allow men to go to war or to begin in the priesthood until the age of 20.
Genesis 25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
During the time Esau sold his birthright for pottage a severe Famine existed in Canaan (2067 BC + 60 years + 13 years = 1994 BC
Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis 26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
During the time of Hezekiah, Egypt was conquered by Ethiopians from the Soudan, who constituted the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. The third of them was Tirhakah 2 Kings 19:9). In B.C. 674 it was conquered by the Assyrians, who divided it into twenty satrapies, and Tirhakah was driven back to his ancestral dominions. Fourteen years later it successfully revolted under Psammetichus I. of Sais, the founder of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. Among his successors were Necho (2 Kings 23:29) and Hophra, or Apries (Jer. 37:5, 7, 11). The dynasty came to an end in B.C. 525, when the country was subjugated by Cambyses. Soon afterwards it was organized into a Persian satrapy.
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