Good morning family, getting some reading in and would like to get a better understanding from some of my more mature brothers and sisters scripturally. Reading Genesis got to chapter 29 and backed up because it got confusing. Trying to read with understanding so I may throw questions in here so I can learn more deeply.
First question. Why and how can someone giveaway their birthright? Is this a spiritual birthright? Or just an inheritance? Genesis 25 V 29-34. Ya’aqov is after Esau’s birthright and even their mother conspires against Esau. (So sad that a mother would do this to rob one child to give to another)
Second question. Chpt 26 end of V8 (Yitchaq was sporting with his woman (there is a symbol here) that means ( the first and the last, the beginning and the end) why is this symbol placed here? Does it symbolize Yahuah? And what does (sporting) mean? I’m thinking sporting mean just showing her off maybe.
Third question. Please help me understand why after Yitschaq was deceived by Ya’aqov and took Esau’s blessing why it can’t be recanted. Why can’t he rebuke Ya’aqov for the deception and still bless Esau?
A lot of shady stuff going on here. Thank you to all for the help.
Samantha Carberry
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Peter Michael Martinez
I am not sure if my answers will suffice but I have some thoughts I would like to share.
Question 1: This is a two part question. Why would someone give up their birthright? Because they were temporal in their thinking and the person who asked was thinking eternally.
This happened in my life. I am the second son. My eldest brother was in need of money when we were young and I purchased his birthright. This very story inspired me. He thought it was funny. He laughed and happily sold it to me. Our eldest sister was witness and she was not amused. She remembers it to this day. She is a widow of a pastor.
My brother died on a park bench a few years ago after a very difficult life. We were only 13 months apart but you would never know we were brothers by the way we lived our lives despite coming from the same mother and father.
Why would he sell his birthright? He never had a good answer.
How was the easy part. The offer was made for something temporal and the offer accepted. It cannot be recanted. The gifts and callings of Yahuah are without repentance. So too is the Berakah. The very fact that he had such low regard for his birthright made it easy for him to forfeit it.
For this reason he must "curse your berakah" because once he gives it ... it is given.
So once the proclamation went forth from Isaac it could not be recanted for it is spiritual.
Question 2: "Sporting" is an old english term for playfulness which in the case of a husband and wife most likely included Public Displays of Affection and the kind of laughter that only couples have. It was a dead giveaway.
Question 3: You must also realize that it was the will of Yahuah that Yacob receive the berakah as Isaac was already told by his father Abraham. So when Isaac realizes that despite his intention to go against the will of his father, Yahuah had outwitted him, he knew it was his own stubbornness that was being rebuked.
You are correct in that he could have protested the deception but it allowed him to do what he knew was right and yet maintain his relationship with his son Esau whom he loved.
I believe Isaac knew the decision was made in heaven.
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