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NASB | Genesis 24:1 Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 24:1 Now Abraham was old, [well] advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. |
Bible Question: In what way did Isaac try to deceive both his wife and his son Jacob before they also planned to deceive him? |
Bible Answer: Although it does not specifically say it was a deception on Issac's part, that fact that he was prepared to give Esau his blessing befored he died (vs. 27:4b) was not only deceptive to Rebekah and Jacob, but was not honoring to God's covenant with Abraham and Issac either. In verse 24:3 Abraham, understanding that marriage to a pagan who would be involved in idolatry would be a severe hinderance to Issac and his service to the living God, sets the principle that his desendants shoud not marry women from the pagan societies that surrounded them in the area of Canaan. That he sent his chief servant on a five to six hundred mile journey to find a wife for his son from his own family demonstrates how important this was to Abraham. The fact that Esau had married two Hittite women who "were a source of grief to Issac and Rebekah" (26:35) seems to bear this out. Rebekah had also received the word of the Lord that Esau, the first born, would serve Jacob, the younger. This was contrary to the common law of the day and it was generally the oldest who would receive the birthright and blessing, and the younger brother would be in the position of servitude to the eldest. It would seem to me that it would have been resonalbe for Rebekah to have assumed that since Jacob, the younger, was going to be in the position that normally belonged to the eldest, that he also should be the one who would receive the birthright and the blessing as well. The fact that she evidently preferred Jacob over Esau regardless of the fact that Issac preferred Esau over Jacob (25:28)probably had something to do with her assumptions too, and since this changing of the way things were normally done had come from God Himself (25:23), Issac should have paid heed to this as well. |
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