This is about Esau
and how took wives from the Canaanite women, then married a cousin, and moved
away from Jacob so they could both have enough land to support them.
They say you can
choose your friends but not your relatives, and this is a classic example of
two brothers who did not get along. Esau
was his father's favourite and Jacob the favourite of his mother. Jacob, who seems to have been a real schemer,
took Esau's birthright in exchange for a bowl of stew and ended up having to
flee for his life to Laban.
You would think
being family, they would trust one another, respect one another, but not so in
this case. Jacob tricked Esau and
Esau's descendants became some of the fiercest enemies of Israel and even
today, thousands of years later, Esau's
descendants surround Israel (Edom is now part of Jordan, bordering Israel) and
are causing trouble and friction to say the least.
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