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Jacob and Esau

GENESIS CHAPTERS 25-33
SINCE ESAU WAS BORN JUST BEFORE HIS TWIN BROTHER, JACOB, THEIR FATHER WAS GOING TO GIVE ESAU A SPECIAL BLESSING.

BUT ESAU DIDNT APPRECIATE IT.

WHILE ESAU WAS AWAY, JACOBS FATHER, ISAAC, BLESSED JACOB.

IF YOU GIVE ME SOME OF THAT RED STEW, YOU CAN HAVE MY BLESSING!

ESAU FOUND OUT THAT JACOB HAD RECEIVED THE SPECIAL BLESSING.

BUT WHAT ABOUT ME? BLESS ME TOO, MY FATHER!

ESAU DECIDED THAT HE WAS GOING TO GET EVEN WITH JACOB.

I AM GOING TO KILL JACOB, MY BROTHER!

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JACOB FLED BUT RETURNED HOME MANY YEARS LATER . . .

ESAU IS ON HIS WAY TO MEET YOU, AND THERE ARE 400 MEN WITH HIM!

HE WILL KILL US ALL!

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

JACOB WAS AFRAID.

O JEHOVAH, SAVE ME FROM ESAUS HAND BECAUSE I AM AFRAID HE WILL HURT ME AND MY FAMILY!

BEFORE I MEET ESAU, SEND HIM HUNDREDS OF MY ANIMALS AS A GIFT. PERHAPS HE WILL BE KIND TO ME.

ON HIS WAY TO SEE ESAU, JACOB MET AN ANGEL. THE ANGEL BLESSED JACOB.

NOW JACOB KNEW THAT JEHOVAH WOULD PROTECT HIM . . .

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AS ESAU APPROACHED, JACOB BOWED SEVEN TIMES.

SINCE MANY YEARS HAD PASSED AND JACOB HAD BEEN SO KIND TO HIS BROTHER, ESAU NO LONGER WANTED TO KILL JACOB. ESAU HUGGED JACOB, AND THEY MADE PEACE.

WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM JACOB AND ESAU?

WHY WAS ESAU SO MAD AT JACOB? CLUES: GENESIS 27:41; PROVERBS 14:30. IF YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER IS ANGRY OR UNKIND, WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? CLUE: 1 PETER 3:8, 9.

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