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Genesis
27:20– Interesting how Jacob gave God credit for his own deceptive practices. He hides in the cloak of religiosity. Easu would, no doubt, have spoken of his skill as a hunter.

27:46– More problems because of Easu’s Hittite wives

28:6– Easu took a third wife, this time a daughter of Ishmael, his father’s brother and enemy.

28:10– Story of Jacob’s ladder dream

28:16-17– “Surely the Lord was in this place and I knew it not.” How often have we missed the presence and activity of God?

28:18-22– “If….then” Jacob tries to bargain with God just like he bargains with everybody else in his life. He did not view a relationship with God as any different from any other relationship he had in his life.

29:1– He was going to his father’s house, but he only made it as far the land of “the people of the east.” He asks them where they are from, and they reply “Haran.” This was where Abram stopped off after God had called him (see Genesis 11:27-12:3).

29:18– Jacob was smitten by Rachel and served seven years for her, before he, himself, was tricked by Laban.

29:26-30– Jacob had tried to impose a foreign custom on them and it backfired on him.

29:31-30:24– Children were born.

30:27– Laban had learned by divination that the Lord had blessed him because of Jacob. There was apparently a total lack of spiritual identity on the part of Jacob. His father-in-law was so non-oriented to God’s activity that he turned to occult practices. Jacob had no moral or spiritual influence on his family.

30:29-43– Jacob sets up another scheme to defraud. Laban counters with his own scheme. Did Jacob not get it that God wants His work done His way?