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Toldot - “Generations”
Genesis 25:19 – 28:9

Isaac and Rebecca live for twenty years being childless until their prayers are answered and Rebecca conceives two boys miraculously. She experiences a difficult pregnancy as the “children struggle inside her”. YHVH tells Rebecca that “there are two nations in her womb,” and that the younger will prevail over the elder. Esau emerges first; then Jacob is born clutching Esau’s heel. Red-haired Esau grows up to be “a cunning hunter, a man of the field”, whilst Jacob is “a wholesome man,” who remains living in tents. Isaac favours Esau but Rebecca favours Jacob.

Returning exhausted and hungry from the hunt one day, Esau proclaims he is going to die; thus he sells his birthright (which are all his rights as the firstborn son) to Jacob for a pot of red lentil stew.

Isaac grows old and blind, and expresses his desire to bless Esau before he dies. While Esau goes off to hunt for his father’s favourite food, Rebecca dresses Jacob in Esau’s clothes, covering his arms and neck with goatskins to replicate the feel of his hairier brother. Rebecca then prepares a similar dish, and sends Jacob to his father’s side so that Jacob is the one to actually receive his father’s blessings instead.

Our story concludes when Jacob leaves home to flee Esau’s wrath and to find a wife in the family of his mother’s brother, Laban.

The two nations inside the womb of Rebecca are a messianic blueprint of the battle between light and dark, good and evil, and love and hatred. Israel and Edom: God’s chosen people and the world, who are lovers of selves and greedy of gain. These two great nations are a blueprint for the coming tribulation and give indications of who will ultimately be victorious.

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