This document provides an analysis of the biblical story of Jacob and Esau found in Genesis 25-33. It examines how God is revealed through the human encounters and development in the story, not just where God is overtly named. Key events analyzed include Jacob stealing Esau's birthright and blessing, Jacob fleeing to Laban to escape Esau's wrath, Jacob wrestling with God at the Jabbok river and being renamed Israel, and Jacob and Esau's reconciliation when they meet again after many years. The document reflects on how God upsets normal order and shows favor through the unlikely figures of Jacob, the younger son, and how humanity glimpses God through human interactions.
Everyone in this chapter sins. Isaac is physically blind, but worse he is blind to the will of God. Esau has sold his birthright and seeks revenge when his brother steals the blessing. Rebekah, knowing the God has decreed Jacob to be blessed, uses her own cunning to accomplish God's purpose. Jacob, is willingly and knowingly complicit in expediting his mother's scheme, supplanting his brother and grasping his father's blessing. Yet, in spite of all this, God's sovereign purpose is fulfilled. Man's sin neither thwarts nor obviates divine providence!
Everyone in this chapter sins. Isaac is physically blind, but worse he is blind to the will of God. Esau has sold his birthright and seeks revenge when his brother steals the blessing. Rebekah, knowing the God has decreed Jacob to be blessed, uses her own cunning to accomplish God's purpose. Jacob, is willingly and knowingly complicit in expediting his mother's scheme, supplanting his brother and grasping his father's blessing. Yet, in spite of all this, God's sovereign purpose is fulfilled. Man's sin neither thwarts nor obviates divine providence!
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4. 25:21
Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was
barren; and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife
Rebekah conceived. 22The children struggled together
within her; and she said, ‘If it is to be this way, why do I
live?’*
So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23And the Lord said to
her,
‘Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples born of you shall be divided;
one shall be stronger than the other,
the elder shall serve the younger.’
[If the story stopped here ...]
5. 24
When her time to give birth was at hand, there were
twins in her womb. 25The first came out red, all his body
like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau.
26
Afterwards his brother came out, with his hand gripping
Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.* Isaac was sixty
years old when she bore them.
27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skilful hunter, a man
of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
28
Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but
Rebekah loved Jacob.
6. Note:
God upsetting the normal order
God for the younger
God for the woman
God for the liar, cheat, coward!
7. Note:
God upsetting the normal order
God for the younger
God for the woman
God for the liar, cheat, coward!
But does God show favoritism?
8. The stolen birthright - The stolen blessing ...
27:18 So he went in to his father, and said, ‘My father’; and he
said, ‘Here I am; who are you, my son?’ 19Jacob said to his
father, ‘I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me;
now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.’
20
But Isaac said to his son, ‘How is it that you have found it so
quickly, my son?’ He answered, ‘Because the Lord your God
granted me success.’ 21Then Isaac said to Jacob, ‘Come near,
that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really
my son Esau or not.’ 22So Jacob went up to his father Isaac,
who felt him and said, ‘The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the
hands are the hands of Esau.’ 23He did not recognize him,
because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so
he blessed him. 24He said, ‘Are you really my son Esau?’ He
answered, ‘I am.’ 25Then he said, ‘Bring it to me, that I may
eat of my son’s game and bless you.’ So he brought it to him,
and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26Then his
father Isaac said to him, ‘Come near and kiss me, my son.’
27
So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of
his garments, and blessed him, and said,
9. ‘Ah, the smell of my son
is like the smell of a field that the Lord has
blessed.
28
May God give you of the dew of heaven,
and of the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of grain and wine.
29
Let peoples serve you,
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may your mother’s sons bow down to
you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!’
10. NOTE:
The blessing ...
Is God like a genii, under the control of a
powerful man?
Recalling Genesis 12:
I will bless you ... I will make you a great
nation ...
All nations will be blessed through you.
Not exclusive blessing, but instrumental
blessing.
11. 27:41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the
blessing with which his father had blessed
him, and Esau said to himself, ‘The days of
mourning for my father are approaching;
then I will kill my brother Jacob.’ 42But the
words of her elder son Esau were told to
Rebekah; so she sent and called her younger
son Jacob and said to him, ‘Your brother Esau
is consoling himself by planning to kill you.
43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; flee
at once to my brother Laban in Haran, 44and
stay with him for a while, until your brother’s
fury turns away— 45until your brother’s anger
against you turns away, and he forgets what
you have done to him; then I will send, and
bring you back from there. Why should I lose
both of you in one day?’
12. Jacob’s journey ... departure and return
Rachel and Leah (cheater gets cheated,
proper order restored)
Jacob and Laban (No mother around to pull
strings....)
Jacob ready to return home (a man now,
facing final challenge)
13. 32:6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, ‘We came
to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and
four hundred men are with him.’ 7Then Jacob was greatly
afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were
with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two
companies, 8thinking, ‘If Esau comes to one company and
destroys it, then the company that is left will escape.’
9 And Jacob said, ‘O God of my father Abraham and God of my
father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, “Return to your country
and to your kindred, and I will do you good”, 10I am not
worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the
faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only
my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two
companies. 11Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother,
from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come
and kill us all, the mothers with the children. 12Yet you have
said, “I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as
the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their
number.” ’
14. 13 So he spent that night there, and from what he had with
him he took a present for his brother Esau, 14two hundred
female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and
twenty rams, 15thirty milch camels and their colts, forty
cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male
donkeys. 16These he delivered into the hand of his servants,
each drove by itself, and said to his servants, ‘Pass on
ahead of me, and put a space between drove and drove.’
17
He instructed the foremost, ‘When Esau my brother meets
you, and asks you, “To whom do you belong? Where are
you going? And whose are these ahead of you?” 18then you
shall say, “They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a
present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind
us.” ’ 19He likewise instructed the second and the third and
all who followed the droves, ‘You shall say the same thing to
Esau when you meet him, 20and you shall say, “Moreover
your servant Jacob is behind us.” ’ For he thought, ‘I may
appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and
afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.’
21
So the present passed on ahead of him; and he himself
spent that night in the camp.
16. 32:22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his
two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of
the Jabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the
stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24Jacob was
left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
25
When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob,
he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put
out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26Then he said, ‘Let me
go, for the day is breaking.’ But Jacob said, ‘I will not let
you go, unless you bless me.’ 27So he said to him, ‘What is
your name?’ And he said, ‘Jacob.’ 28Then the man* said,
‘You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,* for you
have striven with God and with humans,* and have
prevailed.’ 29Then Jacob asked him, ‘Please tell me your
name.’ But he said, ‘Why is it that you ask my name?’ And
there he blessed him. 30So Jacob called the place Peniel,*
saying, ‘For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is
preserved.’ 31The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel,
limping because of his hip. 32Therefore to this day the
Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip
socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the
thigh muscle.
17. 33
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred
men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and
Rachel and the two maids. 2He put the maids with their
children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and
Joseph last of all. 3He himself went on ahead of them, bowing
himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his
brother.
4 But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
neck and kissed him, and they wept. 5When Esau looked up
and saw the women and children, he said, ‘Who are these with
you?’ Jacob said, ‘The children whom God has graciously given
your servant.’ 6Then the maids drew near, they and their
children, and bowed down; 7Leah likewise and her children
drew near and bowed down; and finally Joseph and Rachel
drew near, and they bowed down. 8Esau said, ‘What do you
mean by all this company that I met?’ Jacob answered, ‘To find
favour with my lord.’ 9But Esau said, ‘I have enough, my
brother; keep what you have for yourself.’ 10Jacob said,
18.
19. ‘No, please; if I find favour with
you, then accept my present from
my hand; for truly to see your face
is like seeing the face of God—since
you have received me with such
favour. 11Please accept my gift that
is brought to you, because God has
dealt graciously with me, and
because I have everything I want.’
So he urged him, and he took it.
20. Where do you find God revealed in
this story?
Only where God is overtly named?
21. Where do you find God revealed in
this story?
Only where God is overtly named?
Or in the human development
and the human encounter?
22.
23.
24. 7 Basic Plots (Christopher Booker)
1. Overcoming the monster
2. Rags to riches
3. Quest
4. Voyage and Return
5. Comedy
6. Tragedy
7. Rebirth
25. The Prayer of the Kingdom of God
1. Our Father above us
and all around us …
2. May Your unspeakable
Name be revered.
26. 3. Now, here on earth
may Your
commonwealth come.
4. On earth as in
heaven may Your will
be done.
27. 5. Give us today our
bread for today.
4. Forgive us our
wrongs as we forgive.
28. 3. Lead us away from
the perilous trial.
2. Liberate us from the
evil.
29. 1.For the kingdom is yours
and yours alone.
2. The power is yours and
yours alone.
3.The glory is yours and
yours alone.
4.Now and forever, amen.
30. 5. Now, here on earth may your
commonwealth come.
4. Here on earth may your
dreams come true.
3. Give us today our bread for
today.
2. Forgive us our wrongs as we
forgive.
1. Amen.
31. The Prayer of the Kingdom of God
1. Our Father above us and all around us …
2. May Your unspeakable Name be revered.
3. Here on earth may Your kingdom come …
4. On earth as in heaven may Your will be done.
5. Give us today our bread for today.
4. Forgive us our wrongs as we forgive.
3. Lead us away from the perilous trial.
2. Liberate us from the evil.
1. Amen.
32. 3. Lead us away from
the perilous trial.
2. Liberate us from the
evil.
1. Amen.
33. 3. Now, here on earth
may Your kingdom
come …
4. On earth as in
heaven may Your will
be done.
34. 5. Give us today our
bread for today.
4. Forgive us our
wrongs as we forgive.