Small details that pay off later. The gold marks are seeds the ending grows from.
- Genesis 25:21
Isaac intreated the LORD for barren Rebekah; the LORD was intreated of him, the promise moves by prayer, not autopilot
Pays off → Echoes ep09's answered-prayer thread
- Genesis 25:23
God's choice spoken BEFORE the twins were born: the elder shall serve the younger
Pays off → The grace landing, not of works
- Genesis 25:25
Esau born red, all over like an hairy garment (why the goat-skin trick can work)
Pays off → The goat-skin disguise
- Genesis 25:26
Jacob born gripping Esau's heel, named heel-catcher/supplanter
Pays off → Esau's 27:36 'rightly named' line
- Genesis 25:27
Esau a cunning hunter, man of the field; Jacob a plain man, dwelling in tents
- Genesis 25:28
Isaac loved Esau for his venison; Rebekah loved Jacob, favouritism as the family crack
Pays off → The two schemes (Isaac's private blessing, Rebekah's counter-plot)
- Genesis 25:30
The RED lentil pottage Esau begs for (hence Edom)
- Genesis 25:31-33
Jacob names his price and Esau swears the birthright away
- Genesis 25:34
Scripture's own cold verdict: thus Esau despised his birthright
- Genesis 27:1
Isaac old, eyes dim so he could not see, the whole deception rests on this
- Genesis 27:3-4
Quiver, bow, venison, savoury meat, that my soul may bless thee before I die
- Genesis 27:9-16
Two goat kids for the meal; goat skins on Jacob's hands and the smooth of his neck; Esau's own best raiment kept in the house
Pays off → The hands motif in the outro
- Genesis 27:13
Rebekah takes the risk on herself: Upon me be thy curse, my son
Pays off → She pays, never sees Jacob again
- Genesis 27:19-20
I am Esau thy firstborn; and dragging God in: Because the LORD thy God brought it to me
- Genesis 27:22
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau, the ears told the truth and were overruled
- Genesis 27:27
Isaac smells Esau's robes: the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed, third sense fooled
- Genesis 27:28-29
Dew of heaven, fatness of the earth, corn and wine, let people serve thee, Abraham's blessing passing down
- Genesis 27:33
Isaac trembled very exceedingly, he sees it all and cannot take it back
- Genesis 27:34-38
Esau's great and exceeding bitter cry; Bless me, even me also, O my father; and he lifted up his voice and wept
- Genesis 27:36
Is not he rightly named Jacob, birthright and blessing both taken (pays off the heel)
- Genesis 27:40
Esau's counter-blessing with iron in it: live by the sword, serve his brother, one day shake the yoke from his neck, something, but not the covenant
- Genesis 27:41
Esau counts to the funeral: then will I slay my brother Jacob
- Genesis 27:44
Rebekah's 'a few days' becomes twenty years, she never sees Jacob again; the scheme's hidden price
- Romans 9:11
The choice made before the children had done good or evil, not of works, but of him that calleth
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
The grace landing, He was made sin for us so we might be made the righteousness of God in Him; the blessing worn, not stolen
