Genesis 29:21–30
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About this episode
It does not give us airbrushed portraits of its heroes. It does not present the patriarchs as plaster saints, but as men of dust, men of sin, and men who were nonetheless recipients of a staggering, unmerited grace. In our story today, we come to a hinge point in the life of Jacob. He is a supplanter, a grabber, a man on the make. And now, after seven years of labor, driven by a genuine love for the beautiful Rachel, he is about to get exactly what he deserves. We live in a world that has forgotten the law of the harvest. What a man sows, that will he also reap. This is not some impersonal karma; it is the moral structure of the universe, established and superintended by a just God. His father-in-law, Laban, is about to prove himself a master of the very craft Jacob thought he had perfected.