Previously on the Chosen People

Tell me how you learned you were pregnant, my lady.

I was thought to be barren for so long.

For over two decades, I wondered if I would ever know what it would be like to bear children.

I finally asked Isaac to advocate for me and to go to his god as we would have done with

the old gods from back home. But this one answered, didn't he, my lady? He did. And he became my

god that day. Two nations are in your womb. Two people will come from you and be separated. One people will be stronger

than the other, and the older shall serve the younger. Deborah brought the first infant to her

and placed him on her chest. Delirious with exhaustion, Rebecca frowned at the tiny babe. He was a dull,

blotchy red, and covered with hair like a fur coat. We should name him Esau.

Rebecca stretched her arm out for the second child and drew him to her breast.

Let's call him Jacob. In the back of her mind, Rebecca knew the other meaning of the name,

Trickster, usurper.

Even now, seeds of a plan to reverse the roles of her two sons were in motion.

Thus, Jacob became Rachel's precious child.

Before Esau even had a chance to latch onto her

breast, he was the second son in her eyes. It's settled. Esau and Jacob.

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