Jacob & Esau

The narrative shifts toward a massive family crisis, starting with Esau marrying two local Canaanite women who bring deep grief to Isaac and Rebekah. Years later, an aging, nearly blind […]

Jacob puts the deceptive plan into action. Rebekah dresses Jacob in Esau’s finest clothes and covers his smooth hands and neck with goat skins to mimic his brother’s hairiness, handing

Esau returns from his hunting excursion and prepares a meal for his father, completely unaware of the deception that just occurred. When he enters the tent and asks Isaac for

Jacob was sent off and told not to marry a Canaanite woman. Esau heard this and also married an Ishmaelite, one of the descendants of Ishmael. Jacob spent the night

Jacob finishes his journey to Haran, where Laban lived. When he got there, he saw a well in the field and he met some shepherds who knew Laban. There is

Jacob worked seven years, but on his wedding day, Leah was given to him instead of Rachel, and he didn’t know about it until the marriage was happening. He agreed

Leah and Rachel fight each other. I was going to say “fighting each other for… something” but I couldn’t even figure out what they were fighting over. Rachel got jealous

This passage is about Jacob’s agreement with Laban. When Jacob says that it is time for him to leave, Laban doesn’t want to let him go, but he lets him

Jacob was cheated by Laban, but God was on his side, and he made plans about moving back to Bethel, where he built an altar in Genesis 28. Laban’s sons

Jacob flees from Laban and Laban gets mad and goes after him. Jacob flees in secret when Laban was out shearing the sheep. Before they left, Rachel stole Laban’s false

Jacob rebuked Laban because he couldn’t find that Jacob had sinned. Jacob’s response to him was probably an accumulation of 20 years of anger. He emphasizes how he worked for

Jacob gets ready to meet Esau again. The last time we heard of Esau was when Jacob fled from him because Esau threatened to kill Jacob for stealing his blessing.

Jacob took his family to move closer to Esau. That night, a man wrestled with Jacob until the break of day. The man touched Jacob’s hip socket and his hip

Jacob and Esau finally reunite. Jacob lines up his family in the order that he loves them, and he proceeds on towards Esau. Jacob bows to the ground seven times

Shechem defiles Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, and then asks Jacob to give him Dinah for marriage. Jacob heard about what Shechem did to Dinah, but he held his peace until his

Shechem and Hamor get the other men to agree on getting circumcised with the incentive of being able to take the daughters of Jacob’s family and dwell together. On the

Jacob finally goes to Bethel after many chapters of sinning in the land of Shechem. God calls Jacob to go to Bethel and to cleanse his whole family of any

This passage talks about Jacob’s 12 sons and their mothers. Then, it jumps to Isaac dying, and Jacob and Esau burying him. Next, it goes to Esau’s wives and kids.

The biggest thing I can really pull from this passage is that Esau was really blessed. Even though it says that Jacob was blessed but Esau was hated, it really