When you look at the life of Jacob it would be fair to say that his life has been a long, winding journey. We sometimes can read about the people of God and think that they had a straight, simple path to receiving God’s promises. But Jacob’s life has been far from a straight and simple path. God has spent more than 20 years working in Jacob’s life to transform him from the swindler (as his name means — cf. 27:36) to the one who struggles with God and prevails (Israel — cf. 32:28). Genesis 35-36 conclude Jacob’s life story in the book of Genesis. We will still read about him in the rest of the book. But the rest of Genesis shifts is focus to Joseph. The focus on Jacob ends in Genesis 35-36. What God is going to do is show us how he is going to re-center Jacob’s life to make him ready to be the patriarch for God’s promises…

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