Hey, this is Shelby and Scott. We're going through the book of Genesis. We are in chapters 28 through 30 today. We ended yesterday on a really big cliffhanger.

Scott, can you resolve this cliffhanger for us? I'd be glad to.

So, Esau, Jacob stole Esau's blessing from their father, Isaac, and now Esau wants him dead,

which is an understandable reaction.

Yeah, he takes that about as well as you would expect.

He's furious, and so Rebecca concocks this plan to convince Isaac to send Jacob away to her brother, Laban,

just until Esau kind of cools down a little bit.

There's this comment she makes, though, the very, very end of chapter 27, where she tells Jacob

to stay with Laban for a few days until Issaq can cool down and says, I will sin for you

and bring you back from there. And I pointed out, that's just a really sad comment to me,

because what she thought was a few days ended up being about 20 years.

And as far as we know, she never saw her son again, the son that she loves.

And so just a sad moment for me that she thinks she'll see him again pretty soon that she never does.

So Jacob leaves though, and it's important in 28 to point out

that both Isaac and then God himself reiterates these promises now to Jacob. So just as

got to given Abraham these promises, pass those promises on to Isaac in chapter 26 here in 28. God passes these promises on to Jacob.

And you know, again, these are the promises to multiply the descendants of this family,

to give them the land of Canaan to dwell in and then to bless all the families of the earth.

And then God promises in this chapter, you know, Jacob's on his way out of this

promised land, but God sends him out. He promises to bring Jacob back to this land. And for now,

though, Jacob's got to leave. He goes to his uncle Laban. And, you know, in here, it's funny,

because Jacob, who's been a deceiver, gets deceived. So he gets a taste of his own medicine from his uncle Laban here.

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