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Genesis 27-29
Feb. 16th, 2010 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfpurplemoonJacob starts building his family in rather convoluted way.
* Jacob deceives his father in order to receive a blessing promised to his twin brother. His brother is then angry and gets a less-good blessing. Because there aren't enough well wishes to go around apparently.
* Jacob then gets deceived by the father of the woman he wants to marry (after he worked for him for 7 years to pay for her) and ends up bedding her older sister. But then he ends up marrying both of them (after working for another 7 years for their father). See, marriage is a sacred institution...
* Despite the fact that God always has favourites, Jacob's favouritism for the woman he originally wanted to marry means that God decides to make her barren and bless the other one with lots of sons.
(When they start listing the children's names I feel like singing Jacob & Sons from Joseph, I guess that story will be in tomorrow's reading!)
* Jacob deceives his father in order to receive a blessing promised to his twin brother. His brother is then angry and gets a less-good blessing. Because there aren't enough well wishes to go around apparently.
* Jacob then gets deceived by the father of the woman he wants to marry (after he worked for him for 7 years to pay for her) and ends up bedding her older sister. But then he ends up marrying both of them (after working for another 7 years for their father). See, marriage is a sacred institution...
* Despite the fact that God always has favourites, Jacob's favouritism for the woman he originally wanted to marry means that God decides to make her barren and bless the other one with lots of sons.
(When they start listing the children's names I feel like singing Jacob & Sons from Joseph, I guess that story will be in tomorrow's reading!)
