“And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.”
As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said: this one came out first. The scarlet thread tied on the first hand is the birth-order marker — this one is the firstborn. The application: the midwife's act of marking birth order with a scarlet thread is the attempt to establish the natural precedence that will immediately be overturned.
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