Genesis 27

Genesis 27 Sibling rivalry. Jacob tricks old, blind Isaac (at his mother’s insistence) into giving him a blessing meant for Esau. Rebekah takes advantage of her husband’s bad eyesight by dressing Jacob in Esau’s clothes and putting hairy skins on him. The upshot is that Jacob gives Isaac food and Isaac blesses him a whole lot. Esau us upset about …

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Genesis 26

Genesis 26 What is it with these men and their sisters? Isaac does the same stupid thing his father did. He told everyone that Rebekah was his sister, but Abimelek noticed him being more that “sister friendly” with her, and freaks out. Isaac, just like his dad, thought everyone would kill him for his wife. It would …

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Genesis 25

Genesis 25 Abraham had other wives and concubines. They had children, but Isaac was Abraham’s favorites. He gave stuff to his other sons, but he sent them away from Isaac to live in the east. I assume to keep Isaac safe from them. Not very confident parenting. Abraham dies, and Isaac and Ishmael (he’s back) bury …

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Genesis 24

Genesis 24 Now Abraham is getting pretty old, and he wants to be sure his son gets a good wife. So, he has one of his servants swear an oath that he will get a wife for Isaac from Abraham’s own clan, not from among the Canaanites, and that Isaac must not go back.  Abraham says …

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Genesis 23

Genesis 23 This is a cute little story of Abraham wanting to bury Sarah, who died at 127 years old.  Loss of your wife is always sad, but she lived a LONG time, so I hope it wasn’t too sad for him. This story just seems to be a little vignette about Abraham wanting to buy the …

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