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6.11.2010

Genesis 29:1-30:24

For NIV reading click here http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2029:1-30:24&version=NIV

The next few chapters are really to be read together as they form something like one chapter in the Genesis story. The section is still about Jacob. Here we read about Jacob's love for Rachel and yet marriage to both Leah and Rachel after working for Laban. Children are born, first to Leah, and after some time has passed to Rachel, too.

Should we all work 7 years for permission to marry??? Would we? Not really the point of the story but interesting nonetheless.

The similarities between Laban's family and Jacob's are interesting, too: tension between Leah and Rachel, like that between Jacob and Esau; Laban manipulates circumstances in order to benefit one of his children, much like Rebekah did on behalf of Jacob; the older sibling is passed over against local custom and practice; deception is used in both families; etc.

Great story, a great God of grace and promise...thoughts, questions, etc.

Prayers,
Matt
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4 comments:

  1. DocJune 11, 2010 at 5:27 PM

    Man , I love patriarch stories.Jealous women , genetically altered sheep , sitting on household gods ....... This is real stuff , these are real people , I can identify with these people .Thank you Moses for writing down these stories .

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  2. DocJune 12, 2010 at 7:23 AM

    Yup , that's me all day .....envious of another's blessing/gift , ready to manipulate circumstances to increase my herds ,tearing the house apart in search of my " idols " who for a time have become more important than my Idol..... Thanks Moses , for reminding me .

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  3. DocJune 13, 2010 at 10:31 PM

    Is it LA ban or La BAN ?

    Sue and I read " The Red Tent " a couple years ago .

    Good novel . Based on Patriarchs .

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  4. MattJune 14, 2010 at 5:37 AM

    Doc, depends on whether your speaking in Hebrew or English:) - the Hebrew usually accents the second syl. but in English accenting the first is fine.

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