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Jacob vs Laban ()
A Brief Review of where we are at.
The key characters:
Laban
Patrarch
technically owns it all
says he is giving Jacob wages but steals back by calling all of the stuff his (this is why we can’t have nice things)
Deceiver, manipulator, nice words, bad actions, not a safe person to have a relationship with
Pattern of deception and dishonesty
Clingy = Covetousness = Idolatry
Jacob:
No inheritance from Laban.
He is building Laban’s wealth but it will only benefit Laban’s sons.
Master Shepherd
Hard worker
Call by God
Given a plan by God on how to build an Estate agreeable by Laban
Executes Plan
Has a pattern of running away from trouble
Flees Laban
There are four key events that occur:
Jacob builds his own estate under God’s guidance
God Calls Jacob to go back to the promised land
Jacob Flee’s Laban
Jacob make a covenant with Laban
Gen 30:25-
Gen 30:25-31:55
Gen 30:25-31:55
So our story today starts with Jacob saying to Laban, in the modern lyrical version:
I've paid my dues Time after time.
I've done my sentence But committed no crime.
And bad mistakes, I've made a few.
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face But I've come through.
Jacob is ready to move on.
He has spent 14 years already.
Laban does not want this to happen.
He had little and now he has much.
He has the golden goose.
What weasel move can to pull, what emotional manipulation can he pull to keep Jacob around?
How can the wield is patriarchal power to keep the good thing going?
but Jacob abandon his inheritance and he won’t be getting any from his uncle.
“But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”
God has given him an idea....
Gen 30:31-
Great idea!
Everyone agrees.
But the contract details are key when dealing with weasels and Laban is chief of them.
Driven by covetousness Laban proceeds.
Gen 30:35-
* He thinks he can outsmart the man who has been shepherding for many years.
He has no idea Jacob’s idea is from God. Laban thinks he has made it impossible for multi-colored sheep to be born.
Clearly, as Jacob later admitted (31:7–12), God intervened to fulfill the expectations Jacob had in the branches.
The peeled branches, placed in the watering troughs, appeared to make his animals reproductive as they mated in front of the troughs.
In addition, Jacob used selective breeding by mating the stronger animals for himself and the weak female goats and sheep for Laban.
But this was not the only time God’s part in Jacob’s success was much greater than it seemed to an observer.
There are 11 genetic loci affecting sheep colour.
“White is considered a pattern not a color.
This pattern could also be called Absence of Color, because when the animal carries this pattern gene, it turns off all of the color-producing cells in the hair (wool) follicles.
In other words, this white pattern gene nullifies the basic color gene.
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The Genetics of sheep colour There are 11 genetic loci affecting sheep colour
“White is considered a pattern not a color.
This pattern could also be called Absence of Color, because when the animal carries this pattern gene, it turns off all of the color-producing cells in the hair (wool) follicles.
In other words, this white pattern gene nullifies the basic color gene.
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Homozygous (AA)
Homozygous (AA)
Heterozygous (Aa)
Homozygous (aa)
Gen 31:1-
Pivot moment in the story.
It’s time to leave.
Odd that it corresponds to someone being mad at Jacob.
What do we make of that?
But now some backstory comes out
Gen 31:4-
So the whole flock management plan was God’s.
Jacob followed it and was blessed.
It seems strange but obedience to God even when it doesn’t make sense it how God works.
Remember the story of Naaman in where Elijah told him to wash in the river 7 times to cure his leprosy.
He was angry and mocked the thought of it until his servant reasoned with him .
He dipped and was healed.
Even Labans girls saw that he did not have their well being in mind.
It was time to ditch their dad.
Sometimes it’s time to do that, notably with abusive personalities.
Gen 31:17-
Running away - it will happen more later
But is it bad?
Well God didn’t say run away.
He said return to the land.
:22-
God intervenes for Jacob.
He tells Laban point blank to not say anything to Jacob good or bad.
Laban appears to respect this.
Gen 31:25-
Commentary: The “household gods” (teraphim) mentioned in these chapters probably looked much like these figurines.
Texts from Mesopotamian sites suggest Jacob was adopted when he married Laban’s daughters.
If sons were later born to Laban, each would have an equal share of Laban’s estate.
But one son would be given the household gods, which signified headship of the family.
Rachel’s theft may have been an assertion of her husband’s (and later her son’s?)
headship of the entire family.
Laban plays the heart strings
Points out that he could harm Jacob
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