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After Jacob encounters his brother Esau in peace, Esau returns to Mt. Stir bu Jacob settles outside of Shechem. In time, Jacob’s daughter Leah decides to socially interact with the daughters of the Canaanite city-state of Shechem. She is discovered by Shechem, the prince of the town and is raped. Shechem asks his father Hamor to get her for him as a wife. So, Hamor proposes with Jacob and his angry sons an arrangement for marriage offering citizenship to Jacob’s people. Dinah’s brothers deceive him with the additional requirement that Hamor’s people be circumsized. Hamor agrees and then goes and convinces his people to agree. On the third day of the inflammation and pain caused by the circumcision, Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, enter the city and kill all the males and take all the property and women. Jacob rebukes his sons; but they exclaim they were justified because their sister was raped.

00:00 - Review

02:44 - Dinah ventures amongst the Canaanites and is raped

11:16 - Hamor bargains with Jacob for Dinah

19:40 - Jacob’s sons respond deceitfully to Hamor’s proposal

23:50 - Hamor agrees and persuades the townsmen

30:40 - Simeon and Levi kill all the men of Shechem

42:21 - Final thoughts and preview of Genesis 35

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After wrestling with God and receiving a new name to reflect his changed character, Jacob proceeded towards the Land of Promise. His faith was strengthened; but he was still fearful of meeting his brother Esau. So, once again he devised a plan of escape for his family by separating them into three groups. When he finally met Esau, he discovered, indeed, that God had given his brother a change of heart. They both wept. Esau offered to escort Jacob to Mt. Seir; but Jacob craftily and kindly refused. He later settled in Succoth and later moved into Shechem - the Promised Land!

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03:44 - Jacob meets Esau coming with 400 men

13:08 - Jacob kindly refuses Esau’s escort

17:05 - Jacob arrives back in the Promised Land (Shechem)

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Jacob Wrestles With God - Genesis Chapter 32

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After Laban departed from Jacob and returned home, Jacob’s thoughts focussed on his most pressing concern - meeting his brother Esau. Twenty years ago when Jacob left his father’s home to go to Haran, he was also fleeing the anger of his brother Esau, who had sworn to kill him because of a perceived “stolen blessing”. Soon, Jacob will meet his brother. What will become of him and his household? So, he devised a plan to appease his brother; but still he was fearful. But upon arriving there he found that he was not alone, because God had encamped along with him to reassure Jacob of His protection. Jacob sent his family to the other side and there he wrestled with God till the morning. God gave Jacob what he desired, a blessing, and changes his name to Israel.

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05:02 - Jacob encamps with God

16:07 - Jacob prays for deliverance

20:30 - Jacob devises a plan to appease Esau

27:16 - God wrestles with Jacob

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Jacob has been working for Laban by keeping his flock for six years now - that’s after having done this for fourteen years previously as a dowry for his two daughters. Laban has been very deceitful and has not dealt fairly with him. Plus, Jacob noticed that Laban and his sons’ countenance towards him has become quite toxic. So, he decides to secretly flee with all that he has and return to his father’s house. He flees, but Rachel secretly takes her father’s household idols. Laban discovers that Jacob has left and hotly pursues him. God encounters Laban in a dream and warns him not to trouble Jacob. Laban meets with him accuses Jacob of being deceptive and that he has stolen his household god. Jacob permits Laban to search his household; and after finding nothing, he hotly rebukes Laban. They then make a covenant and Laban returns home.

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05:07 - Jacob flees explaining to his wives

12:17 - Rachel and Leah responds and agrees

21:00 - Laban pursue Jacob

26:37 - Jacob submits to being searched by Laban

35:00 - The covenant between Lban and Jacob

44:54 - Preview of Genesis Chapter 32

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After Jacob has arrived in Haran, he meets Rachel his uncle’s daughter at a well. He tells her who he is and she takes him to her father’s house. Jacob after seven years marries Leah and Rachel, Laban’s daughters. Jacob loves Rachel, but is not so loving of Leah. So, God graciously opens her womb and she bears him four sons in the hope that Jacob would love her too. In this chapter we see where the two women are engaging in a race to see who can have the most children. But also, there is a note of Rachel’s spiritual lacking. God finally gives her a son and Jacob wants to go back home. However, Laban is unwilling to let Jacob leave because he has noticed how Jacob’s God has prospered him on account of Jacob. So, he bargains with Jacob once again - only to deceive him again. But God over-rules Laban’s actions against Jacob and greatly increases his wealth.

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05:40 - Rachel gives her servant to get children

22:27 - Leah gives her servant to get children

25:48 - Rachel’s false hope in aphrodisiacs

35:42 - Rachel’s first child

38:03 - Jacob grudgingly agrees to continue working for Laban

47:43 - Jacob states his wage requirements and is cheated once again

50:52 - Jacob’s superstitious plan to increase his wealth

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After receiving a visitation by God in a dream, Jacob's spirit is revived and he journeys onward to Haran. When he arrives, he meets some shepherds at a well who tell him that Rachel, his uncle's daughter, is headed to the same place. He introduces himself to Rachel; and she thereby introduces Jacob to her father Laban. Laban welcomes Jacob. After working for him for a short period, Jacob contracts with Laban to marry his younger daughter Rachel. Laban deceives Jacob and gives him the eldest daughter Leah. Jacob then has to negotiate once again a bridal price for Rachel. But, all is not well in his household. Leah is unloved. So, God favors her because Jacob does not and gives her four sons.

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After Jacob deceives his father into blessing him with the birthright, his brother Esau plans to kill him after his father dies. Their mother Rebekah learns of this and makes another plan that will send Jacob away to take a wife from her brother's house. Isaac openly and rightly blesses Jacob with the Abrahamic blessing and sends him to his uncle Laban's house to get a wife. On his long journey there, no doubt Jacob is full of fear and apprehension. So, on the way, God appears to him in a dream to establish the Abrahamic covenant and reassure him of His continued presence. Although Jacob is clearly not the man God wants him to be, what awaits him is a long period of discipline and transformation.

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In this chapter we return our attention back to Jacob. Isaac fears that his death may be near, so he determines to bless his favorite son Esau, although he knows this is contrary to the will of God. Rebekah, his wife who's favorite son is Jacob, plots to deceive Isaac and obtain the blessing of the birthright for him. The plot is successful and Jacob deceives Isaac into giving him the blessing, only with Esau coming in afterwards to find out he has lost his opportunity. He is furious with his brother Jacob and determines to kill him when his father dies. So, in all of this mess, Rebekah concocts another plan. This time to try to save the life of her son Jacob. So, she complains to her husband Isaac that she would be grieved if Jacob married one of the Hittite women as Esau had done, prompting him to send Jacob to her homeland in Haran to find a wife there.

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There are times when God's children suffer hardship and turmoil. And sometimes things look quite bleak. However, we are never forgotten, as we are dear to our Lord. And we should always take comfort that God will provide for all of our needs according to His goodness and mercy.

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When the angels of God told the shepherds of Bethlehem how they would be able to identify the baby Messiah (Christ), they gave them a sign. That they would find the baby wrapped in cloth in an animal feeder (manger). Was it more to it than just a sign to point him out?

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