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We know from Genesis 27 that, ultimately, as Isaac’s health declined, Rebekah acted assertively to gain the primary inheritance for Jacob. When Isaac asked Esau to prepare a favorite meat dish ...
Jacob resists, but when Rebekah vows to take the blame for this ploy, he finally consents. And thus does Jacob trick his father. ... Isaac, following Rebekah's suggestion, ...
Jacob tricked Esau into selling his birthright for a bowl of soup and later with Rebekah’s help deceived Isaac, who had gone blind, by wearing an animal skin to simulate Esau’s hairiness ...
Chapter 25 and Chapter 26 The middle of Chapter 25 announces: “This is the story of Isaac.” Except it’s not; the “story of Isaac” is actually the stories of Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob—of ...
As with Abraham, the “child problem” continued with Isaac. In this case, it was parental favoritism: Esau by Isaac, Jacob by Rebekah. But divided parental sympathies also mirror divine plans ...
From that moment onward, Rebekah perceives more than her husband, who lacks both sight and insight, for Isaac loved “Esau because he had a taste for game,” while Rebekah loved Jacob (Gen. 25:28).
Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death (Genesis 24: 61-67).
Isaac’s love for Esau, Rebekah’s love for Jacob – neither stemmed from simple feelings, but rather from a deep and ideological concept of Abraham’s family’s great purpose.
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