What is going on between brothers bartering over a simple meal with such steep costs? People sure were dramatic then. Hyperbole (“I’m starved”) leads to ransom (“my stew for your birthright”) leads to a rash promise, bound into an oath. There are some strange sibling dynamics at work.
I do appreciate that Rebekah turned to God during her strange pregnancy. An odd characteristic is the tendency so often that figures had to ignore God until he overwhelmed them into corrected focus.
As for Abraham, he married again, had more kids and finally died. I’m not sure the circumstances, but I appreciate that Isaac and Ishmael buried him together. Thought time and time again family doesn’t work out quite the way I would expect (see: Cain and Abel; Lot and his daughters; etc) it seems good that the loss of their father would bring together two men pitted as antagonists through their mothers and children.
Thoughts?