> that was explicitly a punishment by g-d? where? he didn't have to stay, he could've been satisfied with the older sister or insisted "no, you old fuck, you know which one of yor daughters i was trying to marry you slimy rat bastard". he chose to stay. because at the same time his uncle was fucking him over he was fucking him back with a breeding program to take all his livestock. this is a family that cannot stop scheming and stealing from each other its in genesis i have to find it again, im literally certain its in there because i had issues with that story and wondered if jacob was actually meant to be the heir in the first place or if it was the devils man because of his lying but i found a passage in genesis that explicitly says god punished jacob for lying to his father (not esau) and i wrote a whole thing up about it on my blog i just have to find it again.
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