IM A CONTRARIAN ESAU APPRECIATOR
HE WAS THE BETTER BROTHER OF THE TWO AND IT'S IN THE STORY TOO
JACOB IS A GIRLY BOY HANGING OUT WITH MOM, ESAU IS OUT HELPING DAD SETTLE LAND DISPUTES AKA TWO GROUPS OF SHEPHERDS THROWING ROCKS AT ONE ANOTHER UNTIL ONE GROUP FUCKS OFF AND LEAVES THE SHALLOW DRAFT WATERING HOLE TO THE OTHER'S FLOCKS

THE DELICIOUS STEW EPISODE ISN'T EVEN WHAT LOSES THE BIRTHRIGHT IT'S JUST A JOKE BETWEEN THE TWO BROTHERS, ESAU GOES DOOD IM GONNA FUCKEN D I E IF I DON'T EAT NOW,
BUT IT IS A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME, AND SHOWS THAT JACOB IS THINKING OF THE BIRTHRIGHT AS A HIGHLY DESIRABLE STATUS THING WHILE ESAU THINKS OF IT MORE IN TERMS OF TAKING OVER FOR DADS BUSINESS WHICH IS A HASSLE

AFTER JACOBS MOM PULLS THE STUNT WITH THE BLESSING -- WHICH IS WHAT ACTUALLY LOSES ESAU HIS BIRTHRIGHT AND EVERYONE CLEARLY VIEWS THE RITUAL AS DOING SOMETHING REAL, NO DO-OVERS OR TAKE-BACKSIES -- ESAU IS FUCKIN PISSED
HE'S GOING AROUND SAYING OOOO IM GUNNA KILL THAT PENCILNECKED DWEEB
SO JACOB GETS SENT TO MESOPOTAMIA FOR A COUPLE WEEKS TILL ESAU COOLS OFF

THIRTY YEARS LATER,
AFTER THREE DECADES OF RAT BASTARD TRICKSTER JACOB
GETTING TRICKED
BY THE RAT BASTARD TRICKSTER BROTHER
OF HIS RAT BASTARDESS TRICKSTRESS MOM WHO TAUGHT JACOB TO BE SUCH A FEMININE MANIPULATOR IN THE FIRST PLACE,
JACOB IS STRONGLY RECONSIDERING WHETHER BEING A RAT BASTARD TRICKSTER IS SUCH A GOOD THING AFTER ALL


HE HEADS BACK HOME WITH ALL THE WEALTH HE'D ACCUMULATED AND BOOM ESAU IS MARCHING TOWARDS HIM WITH A WARBAND
JACOB IS STILL THINKING ESAU WANTS HIM DEAD, JUSTIFIABLY FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW
A BRIEF SPARRING SESSION WITH JESUS GIVES HIM THE COURAGE TO MARCH OUT TO ESAU
ESAU SCOOPS HIM UP IN A BEAR HUG AND GOES HOLY SHIT I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN THIRTY YEARS I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD
WHEN I HEARD YOU WERE GOING BACK HOME WITH ALL YOUR STUFF THROUGH BANDIT CENTRAL I RALLIED MY WARBAND, LET'S GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE BEFORE WE GET KILLED THERE'S A BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE GOING ON ALL OVER THE PLACE

ESAU DID SOME GROWING UP ON HIS OWN TIME, OFFSCREEN
AND AS FOR HIS CANAANITE WIVES -- CLEARLY THAT DIDN'T PREVENT EDOMITES FROM BEING FAITHFUL TO GOD
ESAU TOOK HIS TRIBE OUT TO THE MOUNTAINS, THEY HAD A MOUNTAIN OF GOD OUT THERE, AND MOSES LEARNED A LOT ABOUT WORSHIP FROM THEM, AND WHEN JOSHUA CROSSED INTO THE LAND GOD TOLD THE ISRAELITES NOT TO TAKE A FOOT OF THEIR LAND CAUSE THEY LIVED IN THE PORTION OF THE LAND PROMISED TO THEM
EDOMITES WERE COOL UP UNTIL THE POINT WHERE AFTER A BUNCH OF PETTY SHIT BETWEEN THEM AND ISRAELITES, THEY DECIDED TO GO IN AND RAPE AND PILLAGE A BUNCH WHEN ISRAELITES WERE GOING INTO EXILE
THAT'S WHEN THEY'RE CUT OFF

AND THAT QUOTE OF JACOB I LOVED AND ESAU I HATED, IS IT BY CHANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF BREAKING YOUR FAITHFULNESS LIKE EDOM DID, AND NOT IN THE CONTEXT OF CALVINIST PREDESTINATION WHERE ESAU IS BORN EVIL FROM THE START

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