Season 5 Episode 7 – Genesis 30 : Fool Me Once …!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 1:43

Meet Pastor Ron Again - 2:22

A’ight So Boom! - 3:02

Read Genesis 30 1-8  - 8:36

• Rachel Gets Envious - Leah Bore Children

• The desire that she has for children - understood

• Goes to Jacob instead of the LORD (the LORD controls wombs)

• Jacob’s response is anger? (Why not seek the LORD on her behalf like his dad)

• Rachel Gives her servant Bilhah to Jacob for children

• Gives is crazy, sign of the times

• Bilhah Conceives and bore a son

• Rachel Names him - Son 5 - Dan

• Bilhah conceives again and bore a son

• Rachel Name him - Son 6 - Natphtali

Read Genesis 30 9-13 - 41:20

• Leah Ceased bearing children

• Leah Took and gave her servant Zilpah

• Jacob as a wife (not said about Bilhah)

• Zilpah bore a son

• Leah Names him - Son 7 - Gad

• Zilpah bore another son

• Leah Names him - Son 8 - Asher

Read Genesis 30 14-24 - 44:30

• The Mandrake situation

• Days of Wheat Harvest

• Reuben (Leah’s First Born) found some mandrakes

• Rachel sounds like Esau - Give me some of your son’s mandrakes (stew)

• Leah sounds like Jacob - You take my husband and my son’s mandrakes

• They make a deal for the mandrakes

• Traded mandrakes for her husband (that’s crazy)

• Jacob returns and is told he was ‘hired’ for some ‘mandrakes’, he went

• God listened to Leah?? - When did she ask, was her asking for her husband asking for children?

• She Conceived and bore a son - Son 9 - Issachar

• She conceived again and bore a son -  Son 10 - Zebulun

• She also had a daughter named Dinah

• Now it is Rachel’s turn

• God remembered Rachel - remembered means what?

• God listened to her - when did she ask

• She conceived and bore a son - Son 11 - Joseph

• May the LORD add to me another son!

Read Genesis 30 25-30 - 1:05:51

• As soon as, some immediacy

• Jacob confronted Laban (confronted may be a strong word)

• Want to leave - Go home - with his wives and children

• Laban relays the all too familiar words of the Patriarchs

• The Lord has blessed me because of you

• Name your wages and I will give it

• Jacob is not having it

• Your livestock has increased abundantly 

• The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked (every step of the way)

• When shall I provide for my household (all of this is in the possession of Laban)

Read Genesis 30 31-36 - 1:14:46

• Laban still trying to bargain from a place of strength

• What shall I give you?

• Jacob is bargaining from a place of already offered effectiveness

• Growing my own wealth

• Providing for my own family

• I am doing you a favor

• Jacob presents the plan

• Will take the less desirable sheep, lamb and goats (black, speckled, striped and spotted)

• These are his wages

• Speaks of honesty - why has his honesty been questioned or because Laban is not to give him anything (the latter)

• Will answer for me later, when you look at my wages (the spotted, speckled, striped and black lambs, sheep and goats)

• Any livestock found not like that shall be counted as stolen

• There is agreement that this is a good deal

• Laban being Laban gets the upper hand, probably trying to ensure that jacob cannot go anywhere

• Removes all the striped, black, speckled and spotted livestock from his flocks

• Gives them to his sons

• Puts a 3 days journey between those and the flocks that Jacob is to tend

Read Genesis 30 37-43 - 1:23:54

• Jacob did some stuff

• Peeled sticks 

• Set the sticks in front of the flocks in the troughs

• They bred when the came to the trough, they bred in front of the sticks and

• Striped, speckled, and spotted came forth - (What!!!???)

• Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces to Laban’s black and striped flocks

• Jacob also identified the Stronger of the flock

• Lay the sticks for them to breed

• Would not do this for the feebler of the flock

• The feebler were Laban’s and the Stronger Jacob’s

• Jacob increased in wealth (increased greatly) - Sounds like Isaac

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