We are continuing down Abraham's family line and we see his son Isaac with his Isaac's wife Rebekah. Rebekah very much wanted children but was infertile, so on her behalf, Isaac prayed to the Lord to allow her to have children. God granted her with twins, who were causing a lot of pain in Rebekah during pregnancy. When she questioned this, God responded that she was carrying TWO nations in her womb and they were to be very different form each other , with the older serving the younger. She continued on with the pregnancy and birthed twins Jacob and Esau, with Esau coming first and Jacob coming later, hanging on to his brother's heel. After growing up, the boys have two very different personalities. Esau is an outdoorsy hunter while Jacob is a quiet stay-at-home man. One day, Jacob is cooking stew when his brother came in exhausted after a hunting trip. Desperately wanting food, Jacob cleverly cons Esau out of his birthright, which was easily accomplished as Esau wasn't in his complete right mind.
I don't really think that I have a birthright. Plus seeing as how I'm the middle child and not the oldest, I guess I'm not really entitled to one either. My brothers and I were all born into the same situations and we are all treated fairly equally, so there is no true advantage to being older than another child. However, as a middle child you're sometimes looked over, but that's another story for another time....
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