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Default Re: Day 9. Genesis 25-27 - 09-15-2007, 10:20 AM

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27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Jacob was a momma's boy.

One day, Esau was out hunting, and came in really tired and hungry, and he asked his brother Jacob to make him some lunch. Jacob said he'd only do it if Esau gives him his birthright.

What is a birthright?

34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.


For a bowl of soup, some bread and a drink, Esau gave to Jacob the double portion. He gave up (pretty much) the title of firstborn. He gave up the (basically) the throne, to his younger, momma's boy, brother.
I'd never realised quite how humiliating this bit is before. Esau is a hairy red real man, who spends all day roundhouse-kicking animals to death so that his family may eat steak, and his momma's boy brother decides to Jew him out of his birthright in exchange for some food, fair enough. But what kind of food does the momma's boy give his manly brother? LENTIL SOUP! Is that the ultimate vegan hippy sissy meal or what?
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Isaac is getting old, and wants some tasty venison. His visions not too good, and he wants to give a blessing to his firstborn son, before he dies.

Rebekah overhears this, and she wants her favorite son (the momma's boy) to get the blessing, so she tells Jacob to go get some sheep, and she'll dress them and prepare the meat just the way that Isaac likes.

Jacob says that Isaac will know it's not him because he's not hairy, and Rebekah says, don't worry about it, she has a plan.

15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:

16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:


Ah, smart woman. But this makes you wonder, exactly how hairy was Esau. We know he's hairy, but if you have to put on a suit of goat skin to be that hairy, was Esau like a wolfman?
As with most important questions, there's an Answer in Genesis. Go back a bit:

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25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
Why is this significant? Let's see:
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Esau's name in Hebrew means "hairy", and, according to Genesis 25:25, it is a reference to his hairiness at birth.
When he was born, he wasn't just hairy, he was so hairy that his parents looked at him and the only name they could think of for him was Hairy. That's one hairy baby.


O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.


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