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<dl><dd>CONTENTS.</dd></dl><p>LECTURE I.
Genesis xxv. 27.
"Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents"
The birth of Jacob — The contrast evon in childhood between Esau and Jacob — Jacob purchases his brother's birthright — Obtains by subtlety the blessing Page 1
LECTURE II.
Genesis xxvm. 5.
"And Isaac sent away Jacob."
"Be sure your sin will find you out" — Jacob leaves the tents of Isaac — Jacob's vision — Jacob erects a memorial of God's mercy to him — Chooses the Lord for his God — Jacob's vow 25
LECTURE III.
Genesis xxix. 20.
"And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her"
Jacob enters Laban's house for a few days, and remains there twenty years — Jacob's seven years' servitude for Rachel — Jacob is induced by the fraud of Laban to serve other seven years — Jacob desires to be sent away 50
LECTURE IV.
Genesis xxxii. 11.
"Deliver me, I pray thee from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau"
Jacob sends messages to deprecate Esau's resentment — Jacob's confession of unworthiness before God — Jacob wrestles with an angel 74
LECTURE V.
Genesis xxxiii. 4.
"And Esau ran to meet him y and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and hissed him y and they wept."
Jacob beholds Esau coming with four hundred men — Esau meets Jacob in peace — The Almighty reminds Jacob of his vow 103
LECTURE VI.
Genesis xxxv. 2.
"Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him y Put away the strange gods that are among you y and be clean, and change your garments."
Jacob's family disappointments — Jacob removes the strange gods out of his family — The death of Rachel 134
LECTURE VII.
Genesis xlv. part of 26th verse.
"And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not," Jacob dwells in a land where his fathers were strangers — Famine in Canaan — Jacob sends his sons into Egypt — Jacob receives intelligence of the long-lost Joseph — Jacob's spirit revives when he beholds the chariots which were to convey him to his son 156
LECTURE VIII.
Genesis xlvii. 8, 9.
"And Pharaoh said unto Jacoby How old art thou ? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been t and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
The Almighty promises Jacob to go down with him into Egypt — Joseph goes to meet Jacob his father — Pharaoh asks Jacob his age — The death of Jacob 179 
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Blunt, Henry, 1794-1843</div>
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