Genesis 27:24-25 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.” 25 Then he said, “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Another meal aids Jacob’s ambition. This time not for the mere pronouncement of birthright transfer, but for the immutable covenant blessing. What God had promised to bring about providentially seems to have been fulfilled by deception. Chapter after chapter we continue to see sin’s grasps visible in the lives of these primeval saints as is in ours; Oh wretched people that we are, who will deliver us from this body of death? But thanks be to God who…