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We are your host, Kristen Walker-Smith and Callie Black.

Hello and welcome to Big Picture Monday.

My name is Callie Black here with all the context you need to totally rock this week's Come Follow Me readings.

This week is March 2nd through the 8th, and we are studying Genesis chapters 24 through 33.

We have spent the past couple of weeks learning about Abraham and Sarah.

And in this week's readings, we're going to move on to the next two generations.

We're going to go through two more generations here after Abraham and Sarah. Remember that this part of Genesis is focused on patriarchs and matriarchs. So the storyline is following the specific family's lineage in order to show that God keeps his promises, especially this week. I think this is a

great time to look for the theme of God keeping his promises with every single generation.

So just keep that in mind in general in Genesis, but this week is a good one for that overall

theme. So let's start with the next generation after Abraham and Sarah.

Remember, we learned that Sarah died at the end of last week's reading. Isaac. Isaac is the son that

Sarah miraculously had in her old age and is the firstborn son that's inheriting the birthright from

Abraham and Sarah.

Isaac is going to marry a woman named Rebecca.

So, Isaac and Rebecca.

This week, we're going to learn about how Rebecca was chosen as Isaac's wife, which is just a great story,

how Isaac and Rebecca struggled with infertility,

just like Abraham and Sarah did.

And we will learn about their eventual two twin sons, Esau and Jacob.

Now, they are twins, meaning born at the same time, but technically Esau was born before Jacob. Now, they are twins, meaning born at the same time, but technically Esau was born before

Jacob, which means Esau is the one who had the claim to his father's birthright, his father

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