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>Esau was a primitive monkey RETARD
>Esau's family grows large and held much territory
Oxymoron. A ruler cannot be both a rudimentary chimp and able to cultivate a multigenerational kingdom at the same time, but that's besides the point — This whole context you've created is born out of conceited interpolations pushing through a revanchist biblical veneer that doesn't fare well against verity when one realizes both brothers were borne from the same womb. Going back to the goalpost for a second, if anything, it's way more likely that at the time their story was an allegory to the changing hierarchies of society in a rags-to-riches prospect made possible through strength out of christian faith against indirectly pagan-ist unclerical ways of life (piously shepherding animals instead of hunting them, akin to the epilogue demonstrating Esau "changing for the better" by gifting Jacob with living animals instead of their hides) rather than some brand innawoods savage vs city guy parable which was incongruent with the mostly agricultural tribes at the time, it's a "people who follow our rhetorical christian customs will always come out on top of those who don't rely on God as much, even if unfairly, so join us." Way more of a comment on trope-y societal traditions vs the overpowering christian demagogy of the times.

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“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”