(Jacob would also return once more to Bethel and speak to God: Genesis 35:1-15.) In a sense, Jacob is somewhat like the dishonest steward who cooked his employer’s books to indebt his boss’s ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Long before the Incarnation, Scripture gave us signs — and Jacob’s ladder is one of the clearest glimpses of the Word made flesh.

Jacob returns to Canaan, where 20 years earlier he fled his brother Esau’s wrath after stealing his birthright. But time does not seem to have healed the wound.

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Rebecca and Isaac were blessed with twin sons, Esau and Jacob. Isaac had a special love for Esau, while Rebecca had a special love for Jacob (Genesis 25:28). One wonders how Isaac could have been s… ...