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Alright so the last time I was here, many of you were as well.

We got halfway through the story of Jacob and I've been digging underneath the story sporadically

since then to try to find out what other themes are being developed and I've got some

things that I think are really interesting to talk about.

So we'll get right into it.

So I'm going to review a little bit first.

So we were talking about Jacob and I'll re-update his biography a little bit so that we can

place ourselves in the proper context before we go on.

So his mother Rebecca gave birth to twins and the twins even in her womb were struggling

for, well they were struggling and of course the story is that they were struggling for

dominance.

The older or the younger against the older really because Jacob means usurper and Rebecca

had a, what would you call a vision from God that said that Jacob would supplant Esau.

And so even before her twins were born they were in a state of competition and that's a

recapitulation of the motif of the hostile brothers.

It's a very, very, very common mythological motif and we already saw that really well

developed in the story of Cain and Abel, right? And Cain and Abel were essentially the first

two human beings, the first two natural born human beings and they were instantly locked

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