Genesis 31-43: Wrestling, tattling, and selling out your brother

Sharing a few thoughts from each day's reading. Feel free to jump in and share your own!

- Family meeting:  Love how Jacob consulted with his wives, Rachel and Leah, before decided to pack up and move. Only when they agreed did he make his decision. And this is back when women were considered possessions!

- Wrestling with God:  Jacob wrestled with God, who was in the form of a man. This is how Jacob got his name Israel, or "God Wrestler." Wondering if the man who wrestled with him was Jesus, pre-incarnate. Also, didn't Jacob and Esau wrestle in Rebekah's womb?
- Love is in the air:  Esau married Canaanite women. His twin brother Jacob married Hebrew women. Significant? Yes. Esau's descendants were ungodly and destructive.
- Tattletale:  Joseph was his father's favorite and tattled on his brothers. As a result, they sold him to a caravan of Ishmaelites headed for Egypt. Those merchants were descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son who was the father of the Arab tribes. Never noticed that connection before.
- The plot thickens:  The story of Joseph and his brothers is full of intricate detail and timing is everything. The idea of Providence, God working his plan out in the details of history, is so evident here.