The Patriarch’s Story that Stars a Woman - Genesis 24-27
Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast
Scot Facer Proctor
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In the chapters in Genesis that should be about Isaac, he hardly shows up. He plays a surprisingly passive role, which leads you to think how much we’re missing in his story. After all this is the son, who willingly went with Abraham to be sacrificed and therefore was a similitude of the Savior. This is the son his parents longed for through decades, and then, when we might get a chance to meet him, he is whisked off the stage.
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| 0:00.0 | In the chapters in Genesis that should be about Isaac, he hardly shows up. |
| 0:10.0 | He plays a surprisingly passive role, which leads you to think how much we're missing in his story. |
| 0:17.0 | After all, this is the son who willingly went with Abraham to be sacrificed, and therefore was a similitude of the Savior. |
| 0:25.2 | This is the son, his parents longed for through decades, and then when we might get a chance to meet him, he is whisked off the stage. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and welcome to Meridian Magazine's |
| 0:40.2 | Come Follow Me podcast, where today we'll talk about Genesis chapters 24 through 27. Remember, you can |
| 0:48.1 | find the transcript for this podcast and all of them at Latterday Saintmag.com forward slash podcast. |
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| 1:01.5 | As chapter 24 begins, we are reminded that to this family, their covenant with God is everything. |
| 1:10.3 | We are told that Abraham is getting old, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. |
| 1:16.5 | If his posterity is to be a blessing to the whole earth, |
| 1:20.8 | Isaac must marry someone who can carry on that covenant line, |
| 1:25.2 | and quite frankly the women available in Canaan can't do that. |
| 1:29.5 | He must look far away. |
| 1:32.1 | As the very last thing we hear Abraham say in the scriptures, he calls his loyal servant |
| 1:37.6 | to him, who ruled over all that he had, and gave him a sacred and responsible mission, which indicates just how much Abraham |
| 1:46.6 | trusted him. He is told, thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son, |
| 1:56.0 | Isaac. Abraham asks the servant to put his hand under his thigh and makes the servant swear by the Lord |
| 2:05.4 | the God of heaven and the God of the earth that he won't find a Canaanite woman for Isaac's |
| 2:11.3 | wife. In this image of hand under the thigh, as it appears in the Bible, the usual explanation is that the custom |
| 2:22.0 | was that the oath was so important because it pertained to Abraham's posterity. In the Joseph Smith |
| 2:29.0 | translation, the word hand replaces the word thigh, suggesting almost a handshake to steal the importance of this |
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